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Art Inspiring Transmutations of Life

  • 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
  2. INAUGURAL STUDY

    1. Front Matter

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

      • Patricia Trutty-Coohill
      Pages 3-15
  3. THE MESSAGE OF ART IN THE EVOLUTION OF CULTURE

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119
    2. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall

      • Matti Itkonen
      Pages 135-156
  4. ART AND TECHNE

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 197-197

About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Siena College, Loudonville, USA

    Patricia Trutty Coohill

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