Illusion

INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF PHENOMENOLOGY, FINE ARTS AND AESTHETICS

9th ANNUAL CONFERENCE

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

Friday, May 14, 2004
REGISTRATION, 8:30 - 9:00 AM; Room: Sperry

9:00 AM OPENING ADDRESS:
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, World Phenomenology Institute

9:20 AM SESSION I:
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

1:00 PM
Banquet at the Harvard Faculty Club

2:00 - 7:00 PM
SESSION II :
Presided by: Jennifer Ann Gosetti-Ferencei, The University of Maine

IMMANENCE: THE NEW EXPERIENCE OF THE SISTINE CHAPEL
Patricia Trutty-Coohill, Siena College

AN ANALYSIS OF PAINTING IN PROUST'S ACCOUNT OF PHILOSOPHICAL TRUTH
Mary C. Rawlinson, State University of New York, Stony Brook

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

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

Saturday, May 15, 2004 SESSION III :
9:00 AM; Room: Sperry Presided by: Patricia Trutty-Coohill, Siena
College

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, Siena College

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

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

1:00 PM Lunch together

2:00 - 7:00 PM SESSION IV :
resided by: Max Statkiewicz, University of Wisconsin - Madison

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

REALITY VS. ILLUSION: CONTEMPORIZING CLASSICS: IS IT A CONSCIOUS DECISION

Mahmood Karimi-Hakak, Siena College

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

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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See website for further information about the World Phenomenology
Institute: www.phenomenology.org

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, President, World Phenomenology Institute; ISPAFA
Program Coordinator

Marlies Kronegger, ISPAFA President
Patricia Trutty-Coohill, ISPAFA Secretary General

All papers submitted are copyrighted for the first option of publication
by A-T. Tymieniecka.