CONTENTS

ABSTRACT

INTRODUCTION

Interest and ambition
De-mystification
Art history and international contemporary art
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CHAPTER ONE: INSTITUTIONALISED CRITIQUE

Critique and its vicissitudes
What is the “institution of art”?
The art institution as a discursive formation
Critique within the institution
The defence of autonomy
Critique and the instrumentalisation of art
Critique of institutional critique
Epilogue of institutional critique
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CHAPTER TWO: VICISSITUDES OF AUTONOMY

A self-conscious institution
The critical function of autonomous art
Autonomy and heteronomy
What is the value of artistic autonomy?
Institutional autonomy
Autonomy and philosophy
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CHAPTER THREE: GREAT EXPECTATIONS

Institutionalisation
Undecidability, indeterminacy and plurality
How do we recognise art?
An institution of legitimisation
The museum as parergon
The institution as a productive apparatus
Neutralisation and accretion of value and sense
Politics and the war of culture
The three fields: society, power and art
The politics of art
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CHAPTER FOUR: NO STARS NO FUNDING NO TASTE

ARTISTS MARCH ON THE MUSEUM
THE EXPLODING CINEMA
THE LONDON FILM-MAKERS’ CO-OPERATIVE
PARTICIPATION (PROXIMITY/COMMUNITY/CONTEXT)
OPEN ACCESS
YOUTUBE AND THE CULTURE INDUSTRY
INDEPENDENCE OR AUTONOMY
THE USE-VALUE OF ART
A DIVERSE NETWORK OF INDEPENDENT INSTITUTIONS
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CONCLUSION

BIBLIOGRAPHY