The Aesthetics of Enchantment in the Fine Arts

Let us revive the true sense of fine arts: enchantment! In the conceptualised, commercialised, artificial approach to fine arts, we forgot its authentic experiential sense. It lies at the imaginative heart of all arts there to be retrieved by the creative recipient as the very 'truth of it all'.

Inaugural Study.- Aesthetic Enchantment.- I.- The Phenomenology of the Experience of Enchantment.- “Watery Worlds Awash”: The Sounds of Water in Wallace Stevens.- Light, Color, Interiority and the Aesthetics of Enchantment.- Leonardo’s Enchantress.- Lartigue and the Politics of Enchantment.- II.- The Ambiguous Meaning of Musical Enchantment in Kant’s Third Critique.- Systematic Seductions: Identities of Place in The Sculptures of Bernard Pages.- Art and the Reenchantment of Sensuous Human Activity.- Perceiving the Sublime: A Look at Emerson’s Aesthetics.- III.- The Creative Voice.- The Aesthetics of Enchantment.- IV.- (Re-)Covering Mystery: Restoring Ancient Avenues of Discovery and Concealment.- The Allure of the Naza.- Corporeal Disenchantment or Aesthetic Allure? HENRI Matisse’s Early Critical Reception in New York.- V.- Zizek’s Sublimicist Aesthetic of Enchanted Fantasy.- Metaphor and the Hermeneutic Potential of Poetic Discourse.- Hermann Hesse: The Search for Oneself.- Enchantment in Baroque Festive Court Performances in France: Les Plaisirs de l’Isle Enchantée.- Index of Names.