- Challenges the individual and the type of individual
- Critical and self-critical, not neutral and innocent.
- Make class position of the viewer or spectator of art a part of the
process of understanding visual cilture. The position (class, gender,
ethnicity etc.) of the person doing the understanding implicated the
process of understanding.
- Institutions (art criticism, journalism, art history) in which production
and consumption of art and design take place and personnel are admitted
to the account of understanding visual culture. Art and Design themselves
may be considered institutions and play an important role in understanding.
- Thematise institutions to show their role in the understanding of
art and design.
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- Just another ideology
- Unable to explain the social history of photography or craft by using
their methods.
- Trouble understanding and explaining abstract art, furniture or textiles.
- Deterministic and reductionist in its �materialism�, allowing little
scope for human agency and subjectivity.
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