Illusion in Cultural Practice

Illusion in Cultural Practice
Author :
Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 239
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781000481143
ISBN-13 : 100048114X
Rating : 4/5 (14X Downloads)

Book Synopsis Illusion in Cultural Practice by : Katharina Rein

Download or read book Illusion in Cultural Practice written by Katharina Rein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-25 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 in which we live. Considering different cultural practices characterized by illusionism, this book suggests a new approach to illusion via media theory. Each of the chapters analyses a specific kind of illusionistic practice and the concept of illusionism it entails in a given context, including philosophy, perception and cognitive theory, performance magic, occultism, optics, physiology, early cinema, cartomancy, spiritualism, architecture, shamanic rituals, and theoretical physics, to show the diversity of shapes that illusionism and illusions can take. The book provides detailed analyses of illusions within performance and ritual magic, philosophy, art history and psychology as well as a first approach to the study of illusions outside of these established fields. It aims to find ways of identifying and analysing a wider range of illusions in the humanities. This multidisciplinary and comprehensive volume will appeal to scholars and students with an interest in media and culture, theatre and performance, philosophy, sociology, politics and religion. This publication was supported by the Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar with funds from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. IKKM Books Volume 47 An overview of the whole series can be found at www.ikkm-weimar.de/schriften Chapter 5 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 4.0 license https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003188278-8/vanishing-lady-railway-illusions-movement-1-katharina-rein?context=ubx&refId=fe124e6e-8290-43e9-9d48-753bad162c50 Chapter 9 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003188278-13/talking-rocks-illusory-sounds-projections-otherworld-julia-shpinitskaya-riitta-rainio?context=ubx&refId=3aa829a8-8c0b-4103-870a-6fe5a4393e71


Illusion in Cultural Practice Related Books

Illusion in Cultural Practice
Language: en
Pages: 239
Authors: Katharina Rein
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-11-25 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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
Illusion in Cultural Practice
Language: en
Pages: 222
Authors: Katharina Rein
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-11-25 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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
Techniques of Illusion
Language: en
Pages: 341
Authors: Katharina Rein
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-05-03 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book explores stage conjuring during its “golden age,” from about 1860 to 1910. This study provides close readings highlighting four paradigmatic illus
The Influence of Culture on Visual Perception
Language: en
Pages: 296
Authors: Marshall H. Segall
Categories: Personality and culture
Type: BOOK - Published: 1966 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

On the Pleasure Principle in Culture
Language: en
Pages: 386
Authors: Robert Pfaller
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-07-15 - Publisher: Verso Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In this fascinating work of cultural theory and philosophy, Robert Pfaller explores the hidden cost of our contemporary approach to pleasure, belief and illusio