Book | Chapter
The aesthetics of everyday life
pp. 229-245
Abstract
In this chapter Plato's discussion of the built environment furnishes the direction for an analysis of the various features of that world. Architecture is basic and is filled with varying formed objects: interior decoration, furniture design, artworks, utensil design. In everyday life there is clothing, wine, food, dining, manners, overall aesthetic taste and physical fitness, the automobile, sports, entertainment, and kitsch.
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Wood Robert (2017) Nature, artforms, and the world around us: an introduction to the regions of aesthetic experience. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Pages: 229-245
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-57090-7_10
Full citation:
Wood Robert (2017) The aesthetics of everyday life, In: Nature, artforms, and the world around us, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 229–245.