The first one in question was a student dismissing a piece of art work as being rubbish and the second one was another student stating that simply because he was an installation artist he did not have to like all installation art also adding that there was no precondition to liking or disliking a work of art. Before we can dismiss it or like it i think it is more important to understand it. So what is installation art"

It is very hard to actually pinpoint the exact time and date of it 'birth' and rather then give it a D.O.B. we have to think more in terms of length of time. It was present when Duchamp placed a urinal in a gallery and it was doing the rounds with cubism,constructivism,futurism and minimalism and it was not til the mid sixties that it bought...