The Analysis of the Characteristics of Modern Bob Hairstyle from the Modernist Aesthetic Viewpoint

Choi, So-young; Lee, Soon-jae

Journal of the Korean Society of Cosmetology 2016;22(4):758-769.
Published online August 31, 2016.

모더니즘의 미학적 관점에서의 현대 보브 헤어스타일의 특성 분석

최소영, 이순재

The Analysis of the Characteristics of Modern Bob Hairstyle from the Modernist Aesthetic Viewpoint

So-young Choi, Soon-jae Lee

Abstract

This study looked into the characteristics and significance of the bob hairstyle from the three aesthetic viewpoints of essential purity, technical composition, and free will, which are characteristic of modernist arts. As for the research methods, theoretical studies, which center on previous studies and domestic and foreign professional books on modernist arts, and the hairstyle, and empirical studies, which center on the photographs and pictures of books on the arts, fashion and beauty. The results of this study are as follows: First, the characteristics of the bob hairstyle that reveals essential purity found expression in its visually clear and pure form, with details being restrained by the linear shape and a tendency to eliminate ornament. Second, the modernist characteristics of its technical composition found expression in the revolutionary haircut lines of geometric formative beauty in the bob hairstyle. In addition, the standardization of the hairdo made it possible to design its cutting according to a rational and planned procedure, and to select bob hairstyles of practical designs according to purposes. Third, the bob hairstyle as the expression of free will was the expression of an innovative inclination as a social antithesis, and appeared as a hairstyle that expressed bisexual images by introducing elements of the images of the De-gendering. The bob hairstyle is directly related to modern people``s attention and desire resulting from changes in thinking made against the background of modernism. This Study is significance in that it revealed the nature of hairstyle as Basic Value in the Socio-cultural Contex.

Key Words: Bob hairstyle, Expression of free will, Modernism, Purity, Technical composition