Reading Response to into in reader

After reading this introduction to the reader we have for this course, I became very excited. The intro talks a little bit about Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Jean Tinguely, Robert Rauschenberg, and Merce Cunningham - the five artists featured in this reader. Although each artist was very different from the rest, they all did have some common approaches for defining art. What I gathered from this intro is what I believe personally - that everything in life is art. Everything we do, have made, the earth does, the earth makes all fit together in a perfectly puzzling way. Take a daily routine or a typical school day for me...the path I carve throughout the day is unique and complementary to the paths carved all around me here at UCSB and in the larger world. The five artists in this reader focus "outward on the world around them, not inward upon their own reactions to it." All of these artists have attempted to remain anonymous in their work, leaving no trace of their involvement in the piece to be recognized. They created with normal day-to-day materials people utilize regularly and depend on and thus glorified these unrecognized items. they "mov[ed] away from the idea of interpretive, self-expressive art," and thus they will never go unnoticed.