Self-question 2

This dissertation -- centered around the spaces of art/gallery and everyday life -- should not be a study of art in the everyday, but rather the everyday in art. It should be more attune to the role of gallery spaces (see Brian O'Doherty), as perhaps an ideological state apparatus (ISA). To find a history of the reshuffling of the overlap of everyday-space within and of artistic projects. Before the beginnings of the art gallery/museum -- roughly during 17th century -- art, especially religious art, was an everyday element. Was there a break between the everyday and art several hundred years ago, to be constantly brought back, i.e. Dutch genre paintings of everyday life (although idealized), cubist sensibility (?), or the gallery gestures of the European avant-garde. Case in point, what kind of everyday should I be dealing with? And within what historical time frame should I focus, since the history of art and the everyday is so vast? Furthermore, is it an art about art issue, or are there distinct outside and inside spaces? Also, whose everyday? Any discussion of the everyday should be geopolitcally mapped, the French everyday differs from the American everyday, etc.