What is included with this book?
Introduction | p. 1 |
Neglect of Everyday Aesthetics | p. 9 |
Art-centered aesthetics | p. 13 |
Art as the model for aesthetic object | p. 13 |
Characteristics of paradigmatic art | p. 18 |
Expanded scope of art-centered aesthetics | p. 28 |
Special experience-based aesthetics | p. 43 |
Aesthetic attitude and aesthetic experience | p. 43 |
Limitation of special experience-based aesthetics | p. 45 |
Everyday life ordinarily experienced | p. 48 |
Significance of Everyday Aesthetics | p. 54 |
The environmental significance of everyday aesthetics | p. 58 |
Natural creatures | p. 58 |
Landscape | p. 61 |
Built environment and consumer goods | p. 65 |
Green aesthetics | p. 69 |
The power of the aesthetic | p. 69 |
Landscape aesthetic in the United States | p. 72 |
Green aesthetics-nature | p. 77 |
Green aesthetics-artifacts | p. 84 |
Limits of green aesthetics? | p. 96 |
Aesthetics of Distinctive Characteristics and Ambience | p. 104 |
Aesthetics of distinctive characteristics | p. 105 |
Eighteenth-century European aesthetics | p. 105 |
Aesthetics of the rare and the uncommon | p. 108 |
Examples from the Japanese aesthetic tradition | p. 111 |
"Truth to materials" | p. 117 |
Aesthetics of ambience | p. 119 |
Creation of ambience | p. 119 |
Japanese aesthetic appreciation of ambience | p. 124 |
Ramifications of the aesthetics of distinctive characteristics and ambience | p. 129 |
Expansion of aesthetic horizon | p. 129 |
Humility among designers and artists | p. 133 |
Limitations on the aesthetics of ambience | p. 138 |
Everyday Aesthetic Qualities and Transience | p. 149 |
"Clean," "dirty," "neat," "messy," "organized," "disorganized" | p. 152 |
Neglect of everyday aesthetic qualities | p. 152 |
Construction of everyday aesthetic qualities | p. 154 |
Relevance of functionality | p. 159 |
Reflection of personal character and moral values | p. 160 |
Positive value of disorder | p. 164 |
Appearance of aging | p. 173 |
Sensuous qualities of aged surface | p. 173 |
Associationist accounts of the aged appearance | p. 179 |
Aestheticization of transience | p. 184 |
Limitations on aestheticizing transience | p. 190 |
Moral-Aesthetic Judgments of Artifacts | p. 205 |
Moral-aesthetic judgments | p. 207 |
Examples from contemporary aesthetic and design discourses | p. 213 |
Propriety of personal appearance | p. 213 |
Environmental eyesore | p. 214 |
Designing for special needs | p. 219 |
Design responsive to bodily experience | p. 221 |
Design sensitivity to the temporal dimension of experience | p. 226 |
Japanese spatial design | p. 227 |
Japanese food serving | p. 229 |
Japanese package design | p. 232 |
Aesthetic expression of moral virtues | p. 234 |
The significance of moral-aesthetic judgments in everyday life | p. 238 |
p. 243 | |
Bibliography | p. 253 |
Index | p. 269 |
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