Aesthetics of the Everyday

In Stephen Davies, Kathleen Marie Higgins, Robert Hopkins, Robert Stecker & David Cooper (eds.), Blackwell Companion to Aesthetics. Malden, MA: Wiley. pp. 136-139 (2009)
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This reference essay surveys recent work in the emerging sub-discipline of everyday aesthetics, which builds on the work of John Dewey to resist sharp distinctions between art and non-art domains and argue that aesthetic concepts are properly applied to ordinary domains of experience.

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Everyday Aesthetics and Everyday Behavior.Ossi Naukkarinen - 2017 - Contemporary Aesthetics 15 (1).

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Art as Experience.John Dewey - 2005 - Penguin Books.
Everyday aesthetics.Yuriko Saito - 2001 - Philosophy and Literature 25 (1):87-95.
The Pervasiveness of the Aesthetic in Ordinary Experience.Sherri Irvin - 2008 - British Journal of Aesthetics 48 (1):29-44.
Making sense of taste: food & philosophy.Carolyn Korsmeyer - 1999 - Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

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