Metamorphosis: Creative Imagination in Fine Arts Between Life-Projects and Human Aesthetic Aspirations [Paperback]

Everything Flows: The Poetics of Transformation.- Rustic Architecture: The Metamorphosis of Nature and Architecture in Eighteenth-Century Britain.- Mystic Physicality in the Work of Luis Barragan. Poetic Dislocation at La Casa Gilardi.- Saint-Amant, Holland House, and the Queen of England.- Defining Boundaries in Theatrical and Ceremonial Space in the Middle Ages.- Life and Human Struggle in Moby Dick.- Fiery Purification: Artauds Theater of Metamorphoses.- Bel Esprit. An Assay in Depth-aesthetics.- Fly Thought on Golden Wings: The Transforming Power of Music in Verdis Nabucco.- Challenge to a National School at Risk: Mikel Dufrennes The Phenomenology of Aesthetic Experience (1953).- Painterly Transubstantiations/Political Change.- Fugitive Realities: Konrad Fiedler.- The Primacy of Gesture: Phenomenology and the Art of Chinese Calligraphy.- Gestural Abstraction and the Fleshiness of Paint.- Flesh of the World: The Art and Practice of Dunya McPherson.- The Genesis of Clay Figurative Sculpture in California, 19551974: Potter and Pot, and Intersubjective Encounter in the Work of Peter Voulkos.- Between Canvas and Celluloid.- A Sense of Direction: The Phenomenon of the Authentic Artistic Choice.- The Image made Flesh: A Photographic Re-reading of the Pygmalion Myth.- Perception, Phenomenology and the Object as Actor: The Evidence of Form in Redmoon Theaters Hunchback.- Playing with the Void: Dance Macabre of Object and Subject in the Bio-objects of Kantors Theater of Death.- St. Franciss Canticle of the Creatures: The Metamorphic Effect of Poverty on Writing Poetry.- The Dance of the Angels, the Mysteries of Pseudo-Dionysius and the Architecture of Gothic Cathedrals.- A Portrait of the Artist as a SophistPlato and Iris Murdochs Art ofFiction.- Interpreting Stevensons Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde on the Basis of Tymienieckas Sociocommunal Psychiatric Theraputics.- The Restitution of the Terrestrial Iconography of St. Francis in the Post-Trent Els'