Word: everydayness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...space that lent them majesty even as his grubby detailing kept them all too human. He invented tragic realism: his work was the great hinge upon which art turned, not just toward the Baroque, but toward us. The force and immediacy that make 17th century painters so moving - the everyday people in Velázquez and Rembrandt; the strobe-lit dramas in Ribera and Georges de La Tour - flow in part from ideas that Caravaggio placed before them. Only Poussin was untouched by him, which helps to explain why so much of Poussin is a classroom bore. In the last...
...It’s such a departure from everyday academics,” Koenig said. “It’s a break away from the success-failure attitude that can be prevalent at school sometimes. Hiking the trail isn’t about success or failure. It’s about your experience out there...
...Laurie Puhn brings to bear her remarkable talents as a lawyer, negotiator and all-around-very smart person on the everyday problems of persuasion,” Dershowitz once said. “Her brilliant balance of anecdotes and analysis makes this easy-to-read book a must for anyone who wants to change minds—in other words...
Instant Persuasion explores communication involved in everyday life and its ability to both help and hurt our interactions with each other. Puhn describes how each individual has a “sphere of influence,” composed of people who know and love that person. One can either draw people into their “sphere of influence,” by making what Puhn calls “communication wonders,” or conversely, push them away with “communication blunders...
...what was most amazing about how physical and crazy the entire piece was, was that no matter what they did, it never seemed like they were doing anything that did not entirely belong within the world they had created onstage—it was all as ordinary as everyday life...