Ornamented Lives is a theoretical synthesis of cultural psychology,
aesthetics, and philosophy of meaning construction. It is an
extension of the author's theory of Semiotic Dynamics (Culture in
Minds and Societies, 2007) to the field of ornaments. Ornaments are
not merely "decorations" but play the important role of guiding the
affective depths of the human minds. This is done by capturing the
whole fields of perceivable peripheral spaces and filling them with
highly recursive forms. The book concentrates on the visual
ornaments of various kinds, indicating in them the tensions between
basic forms-linear and curvilinear. This tension is present in
human construction of environments-natural growth involves
curvilinear forms while human constructions introduce linearity.
The basic tension between linear and curvilinear infinities is
expressed in the use of spiral forms in art and architecture. The
book builds a theoretical account of human beings constantly
creating sublime life occasions that give them affective charge for
dramatizations of ordinary living. Episodically the sublime
acquires new quality- becomes aesthetic. The coverage in this book
links the aesthetic, the sublime, and the mundane into one
theoretical scheme within cultural psychology.
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