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Functions of Museums -- Galleries
- VISUAL ORGANIZATIONS
- INFORMATION ORCHESTRATION

Chicano Art Exposure     

Exhibitions = man-made systems = organized
exposition of exhibitions as works of art 
MUSEUM = secular shrine IDOLization of art canonized cultural image
ARTolatry 
NECRO - art 

to view man-made systems, paintings sculpture
recycled imagery 
tradition • avant-garde • neo •compressed • information = neo-tradition 

FRUSTRATION 
inability to capture the ART eidolon 
cultural lag – art lag 

makes contemporary artists' concepts hard to accept 

DICHOTOMY OF PURPOSE AND FUNCTION

Chicano Artists = Producers of Visual Social Concepts

Galleries = Visual Merchanising [[Merchandising]] Traditional
Concepts ART if Decoration 

ART is Profit Motive 

Art Public = Consumers of Accepted Concepts