•	Thomas Leddy. The Extraordinary in the Ordinary:  The Aesthetics of Everyday Life.  (Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2012)
Yuriko Saito, Everyday Aesthetics  
•	low-level aesthetic experience.
John Dewey   Art as Experience.
•	“An Experience”
•	Leddy:  more limited notion of “an experience.”
•	Everyday aesthetics defined in terms of this?
•	Having aesthetic qualities
•	streetscape as beautiful.
Sherri Irvin
•	Cup of coffee can become quietly exquisite. (59)
•	Scratching an itch (2008)
Monroe Beardsley, 1969
•	Aesthetic experience related to arts.
•	Driving down the Schuylkill Expressway.
•	His definition (59)
•	Sensuously presented or imaginatively presented object.

Schuylkill Expressway
Marshall Cohen
•	Cohen: Riding a crowded subway can have a unity.
•	Beardsley:  jarringly diverse.
•	Leddy:  constructing the experience as unified.

•	Leddy “making a work of art based on such an experience is itself a way of experiencing that subject as unified.” 60
•	Construction of the work of art as an experience for the artist and the audience, and also of the experience of the subway itself by way of the art.  60
•	Some daily experiences are nearly as coherent and complete as some works of art.
•	We compose the experience to have unity and dramatic structure.
Red Grooms  “Subway” from Ruckus Manhattan, 1976
Allen Carlson, 2005
•	The nature appreciator composes the natural landscape.

Ronald Moore,  2007
•	Aesthetic experience requires protracted attention.
•	Leddy:  many aesthetic experiences only available for a moment. 61
Yi-Fu Tuan, 1989
•	Two extremes of aesthetic experience:  physical and intellectual.
•	Direct and naïve pleasures.
•	Enhanced through the medium of art.  62
•	apprenticeship
Everyday Aesthetic Properties
•	J. L. Austin, 1962, what about the dainty and the dumpy.
•	Arthur Danto, 2007, the set of aesthetic qualities is nearly boundless.
•	Leddy:  a broader set of aesthetic qualities.

•	St. Thomas Aquinas, 1225-1274
•	That is beautiful the apprehension of which pleases.
•	We call a thing beautiful when it pleases the eye of the beholder. (more accurate translation)
•	A broader definition of aesthetics/beauty.

•	Leddy:  isn’t a sensuous dimension required?
•	Are there pleasures that are not aesthetic, a cool taste of water?
•	What we need is a distinction between non-aesthetic and aesthetic pleasure.
•	Connected to a sense of heightened significance?
The other side of aesthetics
•	The feeling of displeasure:  the ugly.
•	Negative qualities.
•	Aesthetics has more to do with the positive qualities.

•	There is probably no distinctive set of everyday aesthetic qualities.
•	Canonical aesthetic terms:  beautiful, elegant, graceful, ugly.
•	Can be applied to the everyday.
•	Terms like neat and messy, neat room, messy sandwich.
•	Ordered, orderly, organized, tidied.
•	Apprehension as contemplative satisfaction. 65.
“It looks messy, it is messy, but you won’t care.” “The Magical Tempeh Reuben.”  

Richard L. Anderson