Marlies Kronegger, President

Patricia Trutty-Coohill, Secretary General

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Program Coordinator

Topic: HUMAN CREATION BETWEEN REALITY AND ILLUSION

Place: Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Dates: May 14 and 15, 2004

P R O G R A M

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, World Phenomenology Institute

Presided by: William Roberts, Northwestern University, Illinois

REALITY AND ILLUSION IN THE WORK OF ART

Lawrence Kimmel, Trinity University

DREAM'S SHADOWS: FICTION AND REALITY IN MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO

Maria Avelina Cecilia Lafuente, University of Seville, Spain

WISHES, LIES AND DREAMS

Sarawut Chutiwongpeti, Thailand

IS THE AESTHETIC THEORY OF FICTION FICTIONAL OR NONFICTIONAL? THE ILLUSION THAT ARTWORKS ARE ILLUSORY FICTIONS OF MAKE-BELIEVE

Dan Nesher, University of Haifa, Israel

ON THE TRUTH AND LIE OF ILLUSION IN THE THEATRICAL SENSE

Max Statkiewicz, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Presided by: Jennifer Ann Gosetti-Ferencei, The University of Maine

IMMANENCE: A NEW EXPERIENCE OF THE SISTINE CHAPEL

Patricia Trutty-Coohill, Siena College

TROMPE L'OEIL AND THE MIMETIC TRADITION IN AESTHETICS

Jennifer Ann Gosetti-Ferencei, The University of Maine

A METAPHYSICAL PERSPECTIVE ON ALBERTI'S DE PICTURA

James Carlton Hughes, University of South Carolina

TRIUMPH OF THE DISSOLUTION OF REALITY BY ILLUSION: THE SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE OF TROMPE L'OEIL TECHNIQUE OF ARCHITECTURAL WALL PAINTING

Joanne Snow-Smith, University of Washington

ILLUSIONARY TOUCH, AND TOUCHING ILLUSIONS

Madalina Diaconu, Academy of Fine Arts, Austria

REALITY, ILLUSION, AND ALTERITY: THE ADVENT OF THE OTHER

Brian Grassom, Great Britain

SILENCE AS DISCLOSURE: VIRGINIA WOOLF'S STYLE OF BEING-IN-THE-WORLD

Jo Ann Circosta, University of Kentucky

9:00 AM; Room: Sperry Presided by: Howard Pearce, Florida Atlantic University

BETWEEN ILLUSIONS: ART'S ARGUMENT FOR REALITY

John Baldacchino, Gray's School of Art, The Robert Gordon University, Great Britain

ARTISTIC ILLUSION TO THE SECOND DEGREE: INGMAR BERGMAN'S ALLUSIONS TO MOZART'S OPERATIC ILLUSION DIE ZAUBERFLOTE

Ellen J. Burns, Halfmoon, New York

REALITY VS. ILLUSION IN THE 17TH CENTURY PARISIAN ENGRAVINGS

William Roberts, Northwestern University, Illinois

POST DIGITAL AWARENESS: AN INSIGHT INTO NEW PRACTICES IN IMMERSION IN CONTEMPORARY INSTALLATION ART

James Werner, The Robert Gordon University, Great Britain

THOUGHT, OBJECT, AND EXPERIENCE IN FILM/VIDEO INSTALLATION ART

Marguerite Harris, San Francisco Art Institute

THE "SPRING-TIGHT LINE" IN MINOR WHITE'S THEORY OF SEQUENTIAL PHOTOGRAPHY

Andrew E. Hershberger, Bowling Green State University

Presided by: Max Statkiewicz, University of Wisconsin - Madison

AN ANALYSIS OF PAINTING IN PROUST'S ACCOUNT OF PHILOSOPHICAL TRUTH

Mary C. Rawlinson, State University of New York, Stony Brook

AN EXPOSURE OF THE ILLUSION OF CREATIVITY

Victor Gerald Rivas, University of Puebla, Mexico

IMAGINATION AND CULTURAL CRITICISM IN THE WORK OF DAVID WOJNAROWICZ

Scott A. Sherer, Kent State University

REALITY AND ILLUSION IN THE POETRY OF WALLACE STEVENS

Howard Pearce, Florida Atlantic University

THE TRUTH ABOUT VISUAL DECEPTION

Ruth Ronen, Tel Aviv University, Israel

THE ART PORTRAIT, THE PIXEL AND THE GENE: MICRO CONSTRUCTION OF MACRO REPRESENTATION

Steven McCarthy, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus

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