Metamorphosis: Creative Imagination in Fine Arts Between Life-Projects and Human Aesthetic Aspiratio

The Theme; A.-T. Tymieniecka. 'Everything Flows': The Poetics of Transformation; L. Kimmell. I: The Metaphoric Modes of Human Existence: Space, Dwelling. Rustic Architecture: The Metamorphosis of Nature and Architecture in Eighteenth-Century Britain; M.L. Brack. 'Mystic Physicality' in the Work of Luis Barragan; S. Tucker de Vazquez. Saint-Amant, Holland House, and the Queen of England; W. Roberts. Defining Boundaries in Theatrical and Ceremonial Space in the Middle Ages; J.S. Smith. Life and Human Struggle in Moby Dick; V.G. Rivas. II: For the Sake of Beauty in Human Life. Fiery Purification: Artaud's Theater of Metamorphoses; M. Statkiewicz. Bel Esprit. An Essay in Depth-aesthetics; M. Itkonen. Fly Thought on Golden Wings: The Transforming Power of Music in Verdi's Nabucco; G.R. Tibbetts. Challenge to a National School at Risk: Mikel Dufrenne's The Phenomenology of Aesthetic Experience (1953); L. Stratford. Painterly Transubstantiations / Political Change; J. Andrews. III: Reality in Artistic Transformation. Fugitive Realities: Konrad Fiedler; I.M. Rocker. The Primacy of Gesture: Phenomenology and the Art of Chinese Calligraphy; S.J. Goldberg. Gestural Abstraction and the Fleshiness of Paint; L. Durner. Flesh of the World: The Art and Practice of Dunya McPherson; D. Dox. IV: Form, Matter and Experience: The Transformative Media of the Aesthetic Sense. The Genesis of Clay Figurative Sculpture in California, 1955-1974: Potter and Pot, and Intersubjective Encounter in the Work of Peter Voulkos; C. Schear. Between Canvas and Celluloid; S.H. Krukowski. A Sense of Direction: The Phenomenon of the Authentic Artistic Choice; G. Maciag. The Image Made Flesh: A Photographic Re-reading of the Pygmalion Myth; K. Dennis. Perception, Phenomenology and the Object as Actor: The Evidence of Form in Redmoon Theater's Hunchback; W. Strukus. Playing with the Void: Dance Macabre of Object and Subject in the Bio-objects of Kantor's Theater of Death; M. Romanska. V: The Ascent of Human Experience in Imaginative Metamorphosis. St. Francis's Canticle of the Creatures: The Metamorphic Effect of Poverty on Writing Poetry; P. Trutty-Coohill, E. Burns. The Dance of the Angels, the Mysteries of Pseudo-Dionysius and the Architecture of Gothic Cathedrals; T. Morrison. A Portrait of the Artist as a Sophist - Plato and Iris Murdoch's Art of Fiction; S. Coelsch-Foisner. Interpreting Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde on the Basis of Tymieniecka's Socio-communal Psychiatric Therapeutics; G. Backhaus. The Restitution of the Terrestrial Iconography of St. Francis in the Post Trent Era: Annibale Carracci's St. Francis in Penitence; D.M. Unger. The Dream of Ascent and the Noise of Earth: Paradoxical Inclinations in Euripides' 'Bacchae', and Shakespeare's 'The Tempest', and Stevens' 'Of Modern Poetry'; H. Pearce. Index of Names.