The everyday /

Artists surveyed include: Chantal Akerman, Francis Alÿs, Vladimir Arkhipov, Ian Breakwell, Stanley Brouwn, Sophie Calle, Marcel Duchamp, Fischli & Weiss, Nan Goldin, Dan Graham, Mona Hatoum, Susan Hiller, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Mary Kelly, Lettrist International, Jonas Mekas, Annette Messager, Aleksandra Mir, Roman Ondák, Yoko Ono, Gabriel Orozco, Martha Rosler, Allen Ruppersberg, Daniel Spoerri, Wolfgang Tillmans, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Andy Warhol, Richard Wentworth, Stephen Willats.

Writers include: Paul Auster, Maurice Blanchot, Geoff Dyer, Hal Foster, Suzy Gablik, Ben Highmore, Henri Lefebvre, Lucy R. Lippard, Michel Maffesoli, Ivone Margulies, Helen Molesworth, Nikos Papastergiadis, Georges Perec, John Roberts, David Ross, Nicholas Serota, Michael Sheringham, Alison and Peter Smithson, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Jeff Wall, Jonathan Watkins.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-233) and index.

Introduction -- Art and the everyday -- The Poetics of noticing -- Documentary style and Ethnography.

Art and the everyday : Clearing the ground, 1961 / Henri Lefebvre -- Everyday speech, 1962 / Maurice Blanchot -- French quotidian, 1997 / Kristin Ross -- Occupation of places, 1968 / Jean-Jacques Lévêque -- Escape attempts, 1973 / Lucy R. Lippard -- Stargazer: the films of Andy Warhol, 1973 / Stephen Koch -- to argue for a video of representation, to argue for a video against the mythology of everyday life, 1977 / Martha Rosler -- Fifty helpful hints on the art of the everyday, 1985 / Allen Ruppersberg -- Dan Graham's Kammerspiel, 1988 / Jeff Wall -- Every day, 1988 / Jonathan Watkins -- Everything that surrounds: art, politics and theories of the everyday, 1998 / Nikos Papastergiadis -- The everyday: a conversation, 2000 / David A. Ross and Nicholas Serota -- Walking in the margins, 2002 / Michel Maffesoli -- American standard: (para)normality and everyday life, 2002 / Gregory Crewdson -- Everyday life and cultural theory, 2002 / Ben Highmore -- The poetics of noticing : Notes on the Infra-Slim, c. 1945 / Marcel Duchamp -- Interview with Jérôme Sans, 2000 / Jonas Mekas -- Proposals for rationally improving the city of Paris, 1955 / Lettrist International -- The poetics of the Dérive, 2001 / Vincent Kaufmann -- The street, 1974 / Georges Perec -- On Georges Perec, 2001 / Paul Virilio -- The 'as-found' and the 'found', 1989 / Alison and Peter Smithson -- An anecdoted topography of chance, 1962-68 / Daniel Spoerri, with Robert Filliou, Emmett Williams, Dieter Roth -- City place, 1963 / Yoko Ono -- Equality celebrates the ordinary, 1993 / Sally Banes -- Hans-Peter Feldmann, 2002 / Helena Tatay -- Diary, 1964-85 / Ian Breakwell -- Nothing happens: time for the everyday in postwar realist cinema, 1996 / Ivone Margulies -- Outings in the visible world, 1995 / Patrick Frey -- On recent films, 1998 / Gabriel Orozco -- Night journey, 1998 / Ilya and Emilia Kabakov -- Interview with Lynne Tillman, 2004 / Stephen Shore -- Interview with James Lingwood, 2006 / Francis Alÿs -- Configuring the everyday, 2007 / Michael Sheringham -- Documentary style and ethnography : This way Brouwn, 1961 / Stanley Brouwn -- Calling from the inside: filmic topologies of the everyday, 2007 / Tom McDonough -- Album, 1972-73 / Annette Messager -- Annette Messager's images of the everyday, 2006 / Rebecca J. DeRoo -- House work and art work, 2000 / Helen Molesworth -- The artist as anthropologist, 1975 / Joseph Kosuth -- The lurky place, 1978 / Stephen Willarts -- Collaborative meaning: art as experience, 1982 / Susan Hiller -- The hotel, 1984 / Sophie Calle -- Double game, 1999 / Paul Auster and Sophie Calle -- Inside/out, 1994 / Abigail Solomon-Godeau -- Mad for it: philistinism, the everyday and the new British art, 1996 / John Roberts -- Living room, 1998 / Alison Marchant -- Statement, 2007 / Richard Wentworth -- Les Mots et les choses: Eugène Atget and Richard Wentworth, 2001 / Geoff Dyer -- Living and loving #1: the biography of Donald Cappy, 2002 / Aleksandra Mir -- Interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist, 2005 / Roman Ondák -- Home made: contemporary Russian artefacts, 2006 / Vladimir Arkhipov -- The garage sale is a metaphor for the mind, 2005 / Martha Rosler.

"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 pleasures of popular culture, or a meditation on what happens when nothing happens. The celebration of the everyday has oppositional and dissident overtones, offering a voice to the silenced and proposing possibilities for change. This collection of writings by artists, theorists, and critics assembles for the first time a comprehensive anthology on the everyday in the world of contemporary art."--Publisher's website.