The aesthetics of everyday life

pp. 229-245

in: Robert Wood, Nature, artforms, and the world around us, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017

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.