![]() ![]() Like the other anthologies in this series, such as The Gothic, The Artist’s Joke, and The Archive, this volume consists of documents that map the different ways contemporary artists have taken up a particular motif. As such, this collection seeks to formalize “the everyday,” encouraging its transition from a broad theme that has inspired a profusion of exhibitions and discussions since the 1990s, into an aesthetic genre in its own right. According to Johnstone, while the notion of “the everyday” has been considered a subdivision within historical-materialist sociology, historiography, and philosophy, it has received significantly less attention as an aesthetic category. The artists, critics, curators, and theorists presented in this anthology examine the immediate history, methodologies, and aims of the aesthetic category of the “everyday”: the phenomenological hic et nunc, the trivial and unseen, the passive and boring, and the repetitive non-events that characterize the mundane. Stephen Johnstone’s anthology The Everyday-the latest in the Whitechapel/MIT series “Documents of Contemporary Art”-brings together a wide-ranging collection of texts that deal with contemporary art’s encounters with the quotidian. London and Cambridge, MA: Whitechapel/MIT Press, 2008.
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