L'esthétique du quotidien
A lady, a mare, a lire and a vase are the examples chosen by Hippias Major to reply Socrates’ questions on beauty. Aesthetics’ debate began from concrete things, beings and events we encounter in everyday life. In this paper I will consider two rudimentary events lacking any of the qualities traditi...
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| Formato: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
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2012
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| Acceso en liña: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Résumé: | A lady, a mare, a lire and a vase are the examples chosen by Hippias Major to reply Socrates’ questions on beauty. Aesthetics’ debate began from concrete things, beings and events we encounter in everyday life. In this paper I will consider two rudimentary events lacking any of the qualities traditionally considered aesthetic; items that have no elegance, grace or style and are not original, creative or expressive. These plain, simple objects and situations do not intend to incite contemplation because they do not conform to any model of art or beauty nor manifest syntactic or semantic complexity. I am referring to the most prosaic and yet capable of inducing a deep aesthetic response akin to that conveyed by traditional aesthetic objects. A difficult case to argue but for a quality which, despite being entirely ignored by western aesthetic theory, is still worth of regard. This quality may be defined as earthiness or the tellurian, a sensuous and symbolic celebration of sheer materiality in everyday life. |
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