Human Creation Between Reality and Illusion (Analecta Husserliana Book 87)

Identifying illusion with deception, we tend to oppose it to the reality of life. This collection of essay's looks at questions such as: Does not illusion open the seeming confines of factual reality into horizons of imagination which transform it? and, Does it not, like art, belong essentially to the makeup of human reality? Identifying quickly illusion with deception, we tend to oppose it to the reality of life. However, investigating in this collection of essays illusion's functions in the Arts, which thrives upon illusion and yet maintains its existential roots and meaningfullness in the real, we might wonder about the nature of reality itself. Does not illusion open the seeming confines of factual reality into horizons of imagination which transform it? Does it not, like art, belong essentially to the makeup of human reality? This work features papers by: Lanfranco Aceti, John Baldacchino, Maria Avelina Cecilia Lafuente, Jo Ann Circosta, Madalina Diaconu, Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei, Brian Grassom, Marguerite Harris, Andrew E. Hershberger, James Carlton Hughes, Lawrence Kimmel, Jung In Kwon, Ruth Ronen, Scott A. Sherer, Joanne Snow-Smith, Max Statkiewicz, Patricia Trutty-Coohill, Daniel Unger, and, James Werner Front Matter....Pages ix-ix Reality and Illusion in the Work of Art....Pages xi-xxv Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Dream’s Shadows : Fiction and Reality in Miguel de Unamuno....Pages 3-42 On the Truth and Lie of Illusion in the Theatrical Sense....Pages 43-53 Simulating the Unpresentable and the Sublime....Pages 55-63 Front Matter....Pages 65-65 The Restored Sistine Chapel Ceiling: The Transcendent Made Immanent....Pages 67-78 Trompe L’Oeil and the Mimetic Tradition in Aesthetics....Pages 79-93 A Metaphysical Perspective on Alberti’s De Pictura ....Pages 95-101 Triumph of the Dissolution of Reality by Illusion: The Spiritual Experience of Trompe L’Oeil Architectural Wall Paintings — The Tomb of the Leopards and the Villa of the Mysteries....Pages 103-113 Illusionary Touch, and Touching Illusions....Pages 115-125 Reality, Illusion, and Alterity: The Advent of the Other....Pages 127-137 Silence as Disclosure: Virginia Woolf’s Style of Being-in-the-World....Pages 139-153 Front Matter....Pages 155-155 Between Illusions: Art’s Argument for ‘Weak’ Reality....Pages 157-168 Post-Digital Awareness....Pages 169-183 Thought, Object and Experience in Film/Video Installation Art....Pages 185-197 The “Spring-Tight Line” in Minor White’s Theory of Sequential Photography....Pages 199-229 Front Matter....Pages 231-231 Imagination and Cultural Criticism in the Work of David Wojnarowicz....Pages 233-242 A Message for the Oueen: Guercino’s Death of Dido , Cardinal Spada, and the Internal Conflicts at The French Court....Pages 243-255 Who is Deceived by Trompe L’Oeil ?....Pages 257-265 The Aesthetic of True Digital Illusions: Crossing Several Roads at the Same Time....Pages 267-276