Everyday aesthetics /
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| Author / Creator: | Saito, Yuriko. |
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| Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007. |
| Description: | xiii, 273 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6857929 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- I. Neglect of Everyday Aesthetics
- 1. Art-centered aesthetics
- i. Art as the model for aesthetic object
- ii. Characteristics of paradigmatic art
- iii. Expanded scope of art-centered aesthetics
- 2. Special experience-based aesthetics
- i. Aesthetic attitude and aesthetic experience
- ii. Limitation of special experience-based aesthetics
- iii. Everyday life ordinarily experienced
- II. Significance of Everyday Aesthetics
- 1. The environmental significance of everyday aesthetics
- i. Natural creatures
- ii. Landscape
- iii. Built environment and consumer goods
- 2. Green aesthetics
- i. The power of the aesthetic
- ii. Landscape aesthetic in the United States
- iii. Green aesthetics-nature
- iv. Green aesthetics-artifacts
- v. Limits of green aesthetics?
- III. Aesthetics of Distinctive Characteristics and Ambience
- 1. Aesthetics of distinctive characteristics
- i. Eighteenth-century European aesthetics
- ii. Aesthetics of the rare and the uncommon
- iii. Examples from the Japanese aesthetic tradition
- iv. "Truth to materials"
- 2. Aesthetics of ambience
- i. Creation of ambience
- ii. Japanese aesthetic appreciation of ambience
- 3. Ramifications of the aesthetics of distinctive characteristics and ambience
- i. Expansion of aesthetic horizon
- ii. Humility among designers and artists
- iii. Limitations on the aesthetics of ambience
- IV. Everyday Aesthetic Qualities and Transience
- 1. "Clean," "dirty," "neat," "messy," "organized," "disorganized"
- i. Neglect of everyday aesthetic qualities
- ii. Construction of everyday aesthetic qualities
- iii. Relevance of functionality
- iv. Reflection of personal character and moral values
- v. Positive value of disorder
- 2. Appearance of aging
- i. Sensuous qualities of aged surface
- ii. Associationist accounts of the aged appearance
- iii. Aestheticization of transience
- iv. Limitations on aestheticizing transience
- V. Moral-Aesthetic Judgments of Artifacts
- 1. Moral-aesthetic judgments
- 2. Examples from contemporary aesthetic and design discourses
- i. Propriety of personal appearance
- ii. Environmental eyesore
- iii. Designing for special needs
- 3. Design responsive to bodily experience
- 4. Design sensitivity to the temporal dimension of experience
- i. Japanese spatial design
- ii. Japanese food serving
- iii. Japanese package design
- 5. Aesthetic expression of moral virtues
- 6. The significance of moral-aesthetic judgments in everyday life
- Conclusion.
- Bibliography
- Index
