Illusion in Cultural Practice : Productive Deceptions (Paperback)

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