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The Aesthetics of Dress
Springer Verlag (2017)
Abstract
This text argues that dress is a more persuasive means of uncovering the character of aesthetics in contemporary life than traditional examinations employing fine art. Traditionally, fine art was the most widely used means to illustrate and amplify the guise of aesthetics, and yet, despite this rich level of attention, the literature is generally disappointing and beset by confusion and criticism.Author's Profile
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Introduction
This chapter introduces the main themes of the text—aesthetics, the body, everyday and dress. The Aesthetics literature has been evolving for over three hundred years but overall the general assessment is that it is disappointing and often confusing. The literature seemingly lacks clarity and bases ... see more
The Body
This chapter introduces the body and its potential role in understanding aesthetics. Traditionally, the body has played a negligible role in academic research. Instead, prominence has been given to the mind, whilst the body has been relegated to a supporting static object. The argument made here is ... see more
Dress
In this chapter we introduce dress and immediately distinguish it from fashion. Fashion, it is suggested is about impression and focuses upon broad macro issues relating to the fashion industry; whereas, dress is more micro focused and possesses the potential to examine depth. Our interest here is t... see more
Concluding Comments and Future Directions
This chapter brings the text to a concluding discussion. This chapter assists the reader in providing a list of bullet-points summarizing the main contributions of this text and in the future directions section, suggests that a necessary future step is for a wide-ranging empirical study examining ae... see more
Discussion
This chapter draws to together the different themes of aesthetics, dress, the body and the everyday for a synthesized discussion. This chapter also introduces a working definition for aesthetics in everyday life and suggests that practically we should understand that extreme emotive experiences are ... see more
Aesthetics and the Everyday
In this chapter I provide the foundations for our understanding of aesthetics. I do not intend to provide an exhaustive literature review here for I am not satisfied with how this literature has generally developed. However, in the interests of providing a foundation to our discussion, I do attempt ... see more
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