북미 헤어드레싱 어워즈의 미용작품에 표현된 미메시스 연구

Analysis of Mimesis Expressed in the Beauty Works from North American Hairdressing Awards

Hairstyles are the results of creative activities in beauty art. For such hairstyling, there always exists a source of inspiration. In fact, creative works are being completed through the representation or partial imitation of the original. In other words, such process is related with a concept of ‘mimesis’, one of aesthetic factors. Therefore, this study attempted to theoretically review mimesis and examine its characteristics expressed in the works from the North American Hairdressing Awards (NAHA). For this, mimesis is conceptualized by the names of imitation, representation, expression and creation, and its type was classified into representative mimesis, metaphoric mimesis and creative mimesis. When the works from the NAHA were analyzed according to the characteristics of mimesis, in representative mimesis, the physical properties of natural objects were expressed as they were as much as possible. In metaphoric mimesis, on the contrary, target objects were mostly imitated, or inner images were metaphorically expressed. In creative mimesis, an artist’s subjective thoughts and emotions were expressed in an abstract fashion, not in a morphological way. It is anticipated that the above results would extend the scope of research on beauty works by establishing the ground to recognize such works again from a mimesis perspective and suggesting a possibility of studying them within the range of aesthetics.