Thursday 23 February 2012

The Production and Critique of Institutions

Aim: Examine historical development of practices of institutional critique in relation to corresponding development of the modern art gallery.

Work becomes an object ...external existence. If your paid by someone else to do the work, when see products of your labour and get money for it you feel disconnected from work you have done. Sell labour for a wage.

Maintenance of class was false conciseness. Core idea of ideology ...not free to think through ourselves our position of the world.

T J Clark: Ideology ...particular social classes in conflict with one another try to naturalize situation.

Marx: social institution play important role within society
New social institutions
French Society 1796: promote core values of new french state. New public art museum. Create spaces devoted to celebration ...matched ambitions of new french republic. Development of Louvre. One of the first Art museums. Bringing individuals together and making them aware of their presence within society. Free and equal access.
Promote values of new regime: Eugene Delacroix, Liberty leading the People, 1830.


Belief in progress. Condensed French cultural life in single space. Freed from poverty.

Material circumstances generate/reproduce ideological constraints.
Social existence determines consciousness. Place in world generates our beliefs.




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