- To examine the historical development of practices of institution critique in relation to the corresponding development of the modern art gallery
- To demonstrate the importance of the art museum to the rise of the bourgeois public sphere in the 19th century
- To analyse Peter burger's theorisation of the twin development of aestheticism (formalist) art practice, and critical avant-gardism in the first three decades of the 20th century
- To consider the postwar cirque of the convention of the white cube through attention to Brian O'Doherty's Inside the White Cube, and Michael Asher's 1974 Claire Copley Gallery installation
Ideology
- Ideology for Marx - Form of social mystification
- Mans failure to comprehend his own alienation
- We are not free to think for ourselves regarding our position in the world
- The voice we have is a construct - an amalgamation of different voices
- Systems of beliefs, images, values, techniques of representation
- Social classes in conflict with one another attempt to naturalise their place in history
- Our life circumstances are rooted in our material situation
- Socially constructed in relation to many voices that all express thoughts and feelings
- Institutions such as schools and churches have an important role in ideology
France
Hubert Robert, Design for the Grande Galerie in the Louvre, Oil on canvas (1796)
- Neutral space of artistic display
- Specific political function - promoting values of the new regime
Michael Asher, Untitled (1974), (Installation view, Claire Copley Gallery, Los Angeles)
