Illusion in Cultural Practice: Productive Deceptions

ISBN-13: 9781032036304 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 206 str.

Katharina Rein

Opis

This volume explores illusionism as a much larger phenomenon than optical illusion, magic shows, or special effects, as a vital part of how we perceive, process, and shape the world we live in.

Spis treści

Introduction, Part I: The Epistemology and Aesthetics of Illusions, 1. Optical Illusion and Standing Appearance in Kant and Johann Heinrich Lambert, 2. From Magic to Illusions: The Power of the Virtual, 3. Illusions, Magic and the Aesthetics of the Impossible, Part II: Illusions in Entertainment, 4. Magic and Illusion: From the Tarot to Playing Cards, 5. “The Vanishing Lady”, the Railway, and Illusions of Movement, 6. Magic, Spiritualism and Cinema: Viewing Dispositives and Illusionist Spectacles in France in the Early Twentieth Century, 7. Deceptive Strategies in the Miniature Illusions of Close-Up Magic, Part III: Illusions of the Senses and the Mind, 8. Perspective, Illusory Space, and Communication: The Apotheosis of Saint Ignatius by Andrea Pozzo, 9. Talking Rocks, Illusory Sounds, and Projections of the Otherworld: Acoustics of Sacred Sites as a Magic Media in Shamanic Cultures, 10. The Vortex Atoms: On Illusions in Science and the Role of Mathematical Vision

O autorze

Katharina Rein currently works as Lecturer at the University of Potsdam (Germany). She holds a doctoral degree in Cultural History and Theory from the Humboldt-University of Berlin. Her award-winning dissertation examines the media and cultural history of stage magic in the late nineteenth century. Her academic work has been published in four languages.