Thursday, 23 February 2012

Lecture 11- The Production and Critique of Institutions

AIMS

to examine the historical development of practices of institutional criquite in relation the corresponding development of the modern art gallery.

OBJECTIVES

  • to demonstrate the importance of the art museum to raise the bourgeois publish sphere in the 19th century
  • to analyse peter Burges 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 critique 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. 
MARIXISM

idealogoy = false conciousness, ideology explains mans failure to comprehend....

Different class interests - have their own take on our place in wider society

TJ clark - idealogys are systems of belive, tequniques of representation, social classes in conflict with one another, attempting to naturalise their own special place in natural history

Our life circumstances are routed by our material situation - social constructed by lots of different voices that emerge from their own material circumstances

You are constatnly coming into contact with other opposing belif systems. The daily activity of getting up and going to work you get in contact with these

POST REV FRANCE - end of 18th century

Louvre 
Example of production of ideology belifs if post revolutionary France - designed to promote the core values that was the new French State - rise of Bourgois. 
Clammer to create spaces devoted to celebrate mans greatest feets - those that matched the new; liberty, cority, fraternity

Liberty Leading the People - 

Opening the Louvre - politician said that it woudl quiet the political storm and get good for both them and their enemies

IDEOLOGICAL ASSUMTIONS

Woman are caring
Men are strong

These are the what Barthe terms the 'falsly obviou's and potentially routed in prejudice





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