Andy Broadey- The Production and Critique of institutions

To examine the historical development of practices of institutional 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 analyses Peter Burger's theorisation of the twin development of aestheticist (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.