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Into the Light of Things : The Art of the Commonplace from Wordsworth to John Cage
Overview
In this sweeping revision of avant-garde history, John Cage takes his rightful place as Wordsworth's great and final heir. George Leonard traces a direct line back from 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, Leonard transforms our understanding of modern culture.
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- ISBN-13: 9780226472539
- ISBN-10: 0226472531
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press
- Publish Date: June 1995
- Dimensions: 9.24 x 6.18 x 0.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.81 pounds
- Page Count: 268
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