Installation as a form of monumental art

The subject of study, touched upon in the article, is installation as a form of monumental art; it answers basic questions about its formation, gives its actual definition, forms a conceptual apparatus and reveals the full historical context of that phenomenon. The development of art installation as a synthetic, immersive form of monumental art is comprehended in which a monumental artist acts as the creator of the spatial artistic work-environment. Understanding the historical context of the installation phenomenon will contribute to a better understanding of the artistic processes taking place at present, and the developed conceptual apparatus will allow to operate with the terms that have not been theoretically substantiated before. The article is written in search of the ways to solve the problem of incomplete theoretical substantiation of the installation phenomenon and suggests a definition and characteristics of installation from the point of view of monumental art.