Project 4 Ideology and interpellation

Project 4 Ideaology and interpellation


IDEOLOGY .... set of ideas that discusses the goals, expectations and actions

INTERPELLATION.... act of interruption

Or Marxism understands ideology as a creation or class and the subjects position in relation to capital and production process

Project 4

Althusser explains structuralism in two ways :-

1   Ideology that which you imagine does not necessary correspond to what is real i.e. an illusion – different   people have their own take on the subject matter.

2   Individuals are based as subjects of ideology i.e. Celebrity’s, powerful business people, those in authority.

3 I think Althusser’s interpretation to ideology is drawn from Freud and Lacan’s concepts of the conscious and the mirror phase respectively these according to Althusser are both agents of repression and inevitable (it is impossible to escape ideology to not be subjected to it).

Athusser denied being a structuralist and called Structuralism “ structuralist ideology” he showed his basic
assumption that experience consciousness and subjectivity are themselves of an imaginary relationship between an individual and his or her real conditions of existence.

Marxist art history attempted to show how art was tried up to specific classes, how images contained information about the economy and how images make the `status quo’ seem natural .

Courbets – Burial at Ornans is an expression of the painters egalitarianism (upholding the principle of equal rights for all) - this caused an uproar when exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1850 on the grounds that it idealised the peasants it portrayed, while subjecting the clergy to savage criticism.  

Definition visual – what we see – the physical aspects of the world around us everyday

Definition culture - includes language, ideas, customs, tools, works of art rituals and ceremonies etc.

e.g. The staircase from La Sagrade Familia in Barcelona Spain,an example of modern architect Gaudis obsession with nature as well as the use of the circular may say that the staircase was constructed to
represent a snail or a circular form found in nature.