Art Inspiring Transmutations of Life (eBook)

Table Of Contents 5
Acknowledgements 8
Inaugural Study 9
The Pas De Deux: Weaving Thought and Act 10
Invention 12
Free Weaving 13
Stick Work 15
The Freedom of Enjoyment 18
Notes 21
The Artist as Mediator Of Everydayness and Inspiration 23
The Limits of Creation: The Architect as the Mediator of the Beauty and the Beast 24
The Lived Space Of Human Desire 24
The Architect As The Knowledgeable Master 27
The Architect's Pure Gold Hands 30
The Creator Through The Eyes Of The Beholder 31
Notes 32
The Artistic Life, The Art Alive 33
Notes 40
The Historical Logic of Non-Verbal Expression in Everyday Life and the Arts: The Perceptual Foundation of the Precept 42
Further Epistemological Considerations Of The Movement From Percept To Precept As A Historical-Logical Movement In Husserlian Thought 45
The Perceptual Logic Of The Aggregation And The Perceptual Logic Of The Quantum 48
Discerning The Aggregative And The Quantum Diaereses In The Verbal Sentence 53
Discerning The Aggregative And The Quantum Diaereses In The Figural Composition 55
Characteristics That Equate The Verbal Historical Logic To Its Figural Foundational Characteristics 56
Discerning The Quantum Diaeresis In Figural Composition 58
Discerning The Aggregative Diaeresis In Figural Composition 61
Adolescent Identical Twins With The Continuity Variant Of Aggregative Logic 64
Adolescent Fraternal Twins With Quantum-Based Historical Logic: The Pure Quantum And The Dialectical 65
Notes 67
The Relevance of Beautiful Infrastructure 73
Notes 81
References 82
John Steinbeck's Log from the ``Sea of Cortez'': One of Husserl's Infinite Tasks? 85
Introduction 85
The Role And Perspective Of The Scientist 86
The Absolute And Relative Nature Of Truth 89
Concluding Remarks 94
Notes 95
Reconfiguring Oldenburg and van Bruggen's Free Stamp (1982--1991) 99
Notes 105
Aesthetic and Historical Contours of Russian Manor as a Genre 110
Orthodox Monasterial Complex In Contemporary Sociocultural Environment 116
Memory In Positive And Negative Motivation Of An Individual 117
Phenomenology Of Non-Adaptivity Of Personality 118
Legal Criterion Of Positive And Negative Activity Of An Individual 119
The Message of Art in the Evolution of Culture 120
Between a Rock and a Soft Place: Finding Creativity in the Face of Oppression 121
Tymieniecka and the Life of Creative Experience 122
Themes of Identity 124
Listening to Narratives of Creativity 126
Identity of Historical Oppression (1.A) 126
Pre-colonial Identity: the Search for Identities "Restored" (1.B) 127
Post-Colonial Identity: The Search for a New Shared Social Identity (1.C) 128
The Artist as Individual Creator (2.A) 128
The Artist as Manifesting Multiple Identities or Strands (2.B) 129
The Artist as Co-creating the New South Africa: Identities in Flux (2.C) 130
References 132
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall 134
I 134
II 135
III 136
IV 138
V 140
VI 142
VII 145
VIII 148
IX 150
X 153
References 154
The Pain of the Seer in the Civilization of the Blind: Faulkner and Salinger 156
Notes 165
References 167
Opus Cordis: Reflections of a Contemporary Artist Embracing the Drama of Religious Imagery 169
Note 178
Ecce Homo: On the Phenomenological Problematicity of the Religious Image 179
I 180
II 184
Colophon 191
Notes 192
Art and Techne 195
Creation vs. Techne: The Inner Conflict of Art 196
Techne 197
Creation 197
Techne---Creation 198
I 200
II 200
III 201
IV 202
V 202
VI 203
Conclusion 203
Notes 204
Vincent Van Gogh's Irises: Venturing Upon Dizzy Heights 210
Notes 219
On the Poetics of Cinema in the Light of the Present Culture 222
I 223
II 226
III 228
IV 231
V 235
VI 236
VII 239
Notes 243
Art as Informational Readymade 245
Notes 250
Oh, Behave Nothing in Excess or Everything in Good Order: The "Portraits" of Solon and Khilon on a Late Archaic Attic Red-figure Cup by Oltos 253
Notes 262
Artistic and Philosophical Itineraries 268
Visualizing Tymieniecka's Approach to Originality 269
Creativity As The Primary Distinction Of The Human Being: Jackson Pollock 270
The Creative Act As Rupture: Robert Rauschenberg 274
The Pictures Generation 275
Tymieniecka And The Creative Experience 279
The Cipher/New Creation Builds The Future Life-World 283
Conclusion 284
Notes 285
Artistic and Philosophical Itineraries 289
Notes 297
The Only Star in a Nihilist Heaven: A Reflection on the Problematic Identity of History, Art and Cinema 298
The Problem Of The Common Genesis 298
The Artistic Originality And Cinema 305
Notes 313
``Bodher Pratyushe Buddhir Pradip'': The Lamp of Intelligence at the Dawn of Artistic Feeling 316
Notes 320
The Philosopher's Pupil, Iris Murdoch's Post-Modern Allegory of the Creative Process 321
Notes 331
References 331
Ra'anan Levy's Metaphysical Space 332
Notes 338
Mediating Inspiration 339
Art, Intention, and Communication 340
Creation And Spontaneous Complexity 343
Creativity: Product And Process 344
Notes 348
Harold Pinter's Mindscape: His Food--Clothing Paradoxes 350
Notes 358
References 358
Mediated: the Image as a Performative Interfacein the Photographic Relationship 359
References 369
The Phenomenology of Color [As a Working Methodology for Design Practice] 371
Phenomenology Of Color: An Overview 371
The Design Process 373
The Studio Work 373
The Void Series 376
The Color Sequences Project 377
Conclusion 378
Notes 378
The Metaperformative and Gendered Space 380
Performative And Meta-Performative 380
LucIA Y El Sexo 383
Nan Goldin 385
The Spirit Horse 386
Marnie Weber 387
Notes 389
References 390
A Revised Taiji Diagram to Convey the Unityof World Phenomena 391
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(2) 393
(3) 395
(4) 396
References 396
Index of Names 397