The Aesthetics of Everyday Life _ Andrew Light & Jonathan M.smith

1. The question for everyday aesthetics therefore becomes not what are the formal properties of this object that make it beautiful, but rather what is the relation between subject and object that makes this particular experience of that object beautiful. 

 

...general arguments for application of aesthetic criticism to objects and events that have been, until recently, exempt from this sort of scrutiny.  ...Tom Leddy offers an outline of the field of everyday aesthetics. ...Leddy proposes that everyday aesthetics be taken to include inquiries into all aesthetic experiences that fall outside of existing domains of aesthetic theory, such as aesthetics of art, aesthetics of nature, and aesthetics of mathematics.

... There is also a danger that this theory of the aesthetics of everyday life might seem to lend intellectual support to the commercial aestheticization of everyday life that one finds in advertisements. Finally, it is unclear what should be done with the promiscuous aesthetic experiences of individuals who, due to a temporarily or permanently ecstatic state of mind, find beauty everywhere. _ introduction