Illusionism is the view that phenomenal consciousness (in the philosophers' sense) is an illusion. This book is a reprint of a special issue of the Journal of Consciousness Studies devoted to this topic. It takes the form of a target paper by the editor, followed by commentaries from various thinkers, including leading defenders of the theory such as Daniel Dennett, Nicholas Humphrey, Derk Pereboom and Georges Rey. A number of disciplines are represented and different viewpoints are discussed and defended. The colleciton is tied together with a response to the commentaries from the editor.
Connecting contemporary critical theory with close readings of seventeenth-century Dutch visual culture, The Rhetoric of Perspective puts forth the claim that painting is a form of thinking and that perspective functions as the language of ...
Eytinge, Rose. The Memoirs of Rose Eytinge: Being Recollections and Observations of Men, Women, and Events, During Half a Century. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1905. Farwell, E.L. “The Latest Stage Realism.” Technical World 19 (1913): ...
Illusion in Art: Trompe L'oeil : a History of Pictorial Illusionism
Matthew Solomon also explored the relation of cinema and performance magic in several essays and, most notably, ... A few edited collections have been dedicated to the topic, such as Performing Magic on the Western Stage (2008), ...
... illusionism. From his earliest years until his death, MacKaye sought out the absorptive power of illusionistic art with all his projects. Whether he was painting the seascape he experienced as a youth or playing Hamlet for fellow Union ...
Myths in Dusklands As Stephen Watson observes, when Dusklands was published in 1974 it was considered to be part of “the ... As White shows, the myth of the intrepid explorer subsists not on detailed information about Voss's project, ...
This area of study is known as unorthodox illusionism, but more can be done with shadows that most mages know or care to admit, a fact that we will delve into later in this book.
Delft Masters, Vermeer's Contemporaries: Illusionism Through the Conquest of Light and Space
András Gero examines how Hungarian nationalists and communists used illusionism and the impact of this trend on Hungarian literature, politics, and culture. The author finds that illusionism has its roots...
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