The everyday

"This anthology surveys the everyday's central significance for art since the 1950s. The Everyday is one of a series documenting major themes and ideas in contemporary art."--Cover. "Numerous international exhibitions and biennials have borne witness to the range of contemporary art engaged with the everyday and its antecedents in the work of Surrealists, Situationists, the Fluxus group, and conceptual and feminist artists of the 1960s and 1970s. This art shows a recognition of ordinary dignity or the accidentally miraculous, an engagement with a new kind of anthropology, an immersion in the…