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Art Inspiring Transmutations of Life

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Editors:
  1. Patricia Trutty Coohill

    1. Siena College, Loudonville, USA

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  • Indulges the reader with a creative experience, full of aesthetic inspiration, that transmutes and transforms
  • Treats art as a unique thread in human communication, a medium that carries the significance of human life and sustains history and culture
  • Considers art as an elevation of the human experience
  • Explains how art elevates life’s struggle and provides a human measure
  • Illustrates how art allows humanity to communicate

Part of the book series: Analecta Husserliana (ANHU, volume 106)

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Table of contents (30 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. INAUGURAL STUDY

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Pas De Deux: Weaving Thought and Act

      • Patricia Trutty-Coohill
      Pages 3-15

  4. THE MESSAGE OF ART IN THE EVOLUTION OF CULTURE

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119
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    2. Between a Rock and a Soft Place: Finding Creativity in the Face of Oppression

      • Mary Jeanne Larrabee
      Pages 121-133

    3. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall

      • Matti Itkonen
      Pages 135-156

    4. The Pain of the Seer in the Civilization of the Blind: Faulkner and Salinger

      • Raymond J. Wilson III, Jerre Collins
      Pages 157-169

    5. Opus Cordis: Reflections of a Contemporary Artist Embracing the Drama of Religious Imagery

      • Constance Pierce
      Pages 171-180

    6. Ecce Homo: On the Phenomenological Problematicity of the Religious Image

      • Victor G. Rivas LóPez
      Pages 181-196

  5. ART AND TECHNE

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 197-197
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    2. Creation Vs. Techne: The Inner Conflict of Art

      • Davor Džalto
      Pages 199-212

    3. Vincent Van Gogh’s Irises: Venturing Upon Dizzy Heights

      • Bruce Ross
      Pages 213-224
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Although the creative impulse surges in revolt against everyday reality, breaking through its confines, it makes pacts with that reality’s essential laws and returns to it to modulate its sense. In fact, it is through praxis that imagination and artistic inventiveness transmute the vital concerns of life, giving them human measure. But at the same time art’s inspiration imbues life with aesthetic sense, which lifts human experience to the spiritual. Within these two perspectives art launches messages of specifically human inner propulsions, strivings, ideals, nostalgia, yearnings prosaic and poetic, profane and sacral, practical and ideal, while standing at the fragile borderline of everydayness and imaginative adventure. Art’s creative perduring constructs are intentional marks of the aesthetic significance attributed to the flux of human life and reflect the human quest for repose. They mediate communication and participation in spirit and sustain the relative continuity of culture and history.

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  • Siena College, Loudonville, USA

    Patricia Trutty Coohill

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