Into the Light of Things: The Art of the Commonplace from Wordsworth to John Cage

Leonard, George J.

This revision of avant-garde history traces a direct line back from John Cage, pop and conceptual art, through the Futurists, to Whitman, Emerson, Ruskin, Carlyle and Wordsworth, showing how the art of everyday objects, often thought an exclusively contemporary phenomenon, actually began as far back as 1800. In recovering the links between such seemingly disparate figures, this work is intended to provide a better understanding of modern culture.

EAN

9780226472539

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published

15 June 1995

Pages

268