Browsing by Subject "Everyday aesthetics"

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    The aesthetic value of the unnoticed
    (University of Helsinki, 2019) Pérez Carreño, Francisca; Filosofía
    This paper comments on a paradox that seems to be the crux of everyday aesthetics: the aesthetic character of the non–aesthetic. The ‘everyday’, characterised as the routine, familiar, taken for granted, or just unnoticed, seems to be opposite to that marked as worth looking at, and aesthetically contemplating. The aim of the article is to hold that the unreflective consciousness of objects, environments and events in everyday life permits their aesthetic appreciation. The paper considers the role that art and memories play in bringing into consciousness that which was previously ‘unnoticed’.
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    Theatricality and Everyday Aesthetics
    (University of Rijeka, 2022) Pérez Carreño, Francisca; Filosofía
    Assuming the importance that everyday aesthetics concedes to action-directed experiences, the author of Theatricality and Everyday Aesthetics holds that a central aspect of the experience of the everyday comes out from the anti-theatrical performance of ordinary activities. Antitheatricality obtains when an agent is engaged in an activity losing the sense of being observed. Absorbed in the activity, she does not focus her attention on the object or in herself but on the activity itself. Absorption needs not be restricted to solitary or domestic activities but can be found in collective private and public activities. Examples from modern painting and contemporary photography are used to explain the phenomenon since art provides us with images that we would otherwise lack.