Institutional Critique (Art movement) (Topical Term)

Work cat.: Institutional Critique and after, c2006: p. 15 (pioneers of Institutional Critique include Broodthaers, Haacke, Buren, Asher, John Knight; central assumption of Institutional Critique, that all artists and art institutions are implicated in what Haacke calls the "socio-political value-system") p. 16 (axiom at the heart of Institutional Criticism movement--that art can effect change through a critical address to socio-cultural issues)

Conceptual art and the politics of publicity, 2003: p. 127 (institutional critique, art practice that would seek to show the intersections where not only political and economic but also ideological and state, cultural and corporate, interests meet)

New musuem theory and practice, 2005: p. 269 (by the late 1980s, institutional critique had become a significant trend in postmodern artistic practice)

Wikipedia, May 27, 2007 (Institutional Critique is an art term that describes the systematic inquiry into the workings of art institutions, for instance galleries and museums, and is most associated with the work of artists such as Marcel Broodthaers and Hans Haacke; in more technical terms, Institutional Critique is an artistic term meant as a commentary of the various institutions and assumed normalities of art and/or a radical disarticulation of the institution of art; categories cited: Art movements; Contemporary art; Postmodern art; Institutional Critique artists)

The rise of the Sixties : European and American art in the era of dissent, 2004: p. 176 (painting and the idea of an autonomous art object were no longer credible, for some European artists the container (i.e., museum, art gallery) was powerfully determining; a crucial figure in this tendency, later labelled as "institutional critique", was Marcel Broodthaers)