Ossi Naukkarinen : Aesthetics of the unavoidable : aesthetic variations in human appearance

Aesthetics of the Unavoidable provides tools for understanding and structuring the complex field of the aesthetics of normal, daily life. The book indicates what kinds of things we should pay attention to if we want to make sense of the aesthetics of the everyday world and compare different instances of it with each other. It also provides means to structure the contemporary discussion about the aestheticization of everyday life. The book concentrates primarily on human appearance, and how it is dealt with through different types of aesthetics. In this context, aesthetics is typically tacit rather than explicit, volatile rather than stable, and unoriginal rather than original. What it is possible to do through this kind of aesthetics is something else than can be done by academic theories. But it is exactly what is needed in dressing up, wearing clothes, or making up - in living one's life and showing one's aesthetic ideas and values through it.