Art of the Ordinary: The Everyday Domain of Art, Film, Philosophy, and Poetry

by Richard Deming

Book Overview

Cutting across literature, film, art, and philosophy, Art of the Ordinary is a trailblazing, cross-disciplinary engagement with the ordinary and the everyday. Because, writes Richard Deming, the ordinary is always at hand, it is, in fact, too familiar for us to perceive it and become fully aware of it. The ordinary he argues, is what most needs to be discovered and yet is something that can never be approached, since...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501720147
• ISBN13: 9781501720147
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher