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It may be initially apparent that the everyday--as a word--is self explanatory, the words 'every' and 'day' obviously denoting something that occurs not only once, but each day hence thereafter, hence repetition. However, to write of 'the everyday' as opposed to an 'everyday' (no 'the') perhaps encompasses a much more vast spectrum of complexity and analysis. What exactly is meant by the everyday and what is its effect on art, or vice versa even? Ben Highmore writes of the surrealists, and how they [the movement] sought to change, or perhaps overcome and alter and disrupt the routiness of the everyday experience ... However, I am exploring a strand of art history that is perhaps the opposite of the surrealist history/movement: rather, how the everyday disrupted and altered art--i.e. the hetertopic (see Foucault) of the art gallery space--specifically in mind a few conceptual artists practicing during the 1960s through 1970s ... These artists practice an alternative reading of dadaism (surrealism as another yet different reading); as well as linked genealogically to the practice of certain [their] future contemporary artists ...