The Art of Illusion and the Aesthetics of Reality

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Foreword V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction IX
5. I. Principles and Program
6. Different Aesthetics – Premodern Acts and Artifacts. The Program of the Tübingen Collaborative Research Center 1391 1
7. II. Practices and Performances
8. Purism – Discourses and Practices of Language Purity 51
9. Tafelmusik. Music and Banqueting in the Premodern Era 87
10. Bathing and Spa Music as a Space of Reflection for a Different Aesthetics 117
11. Ars militaris. The Art of War as Aesthetic Practice in the 18^th Century 151
12. III. Manifestations and Interactions
13. Aesthetic Negotiations in Devotional Texts. A Comparison of Chapter II,25 of The Flowing Light of the Godhead and Meister Eckhart’s Sermon 57 177
14. The Violence of Caritas. Acting Personifications as Figures of Aesthetic Reflection 227
15. Can Aesthetics Be Counted? Systematic Annotation and Quantitative Analysis of Narrational Comments in the Sagas of Icelanders 265
16. Addressing the Viewer. 12t^h- and 13^th-Century Byzantine Wall Paintings 289
17. IV. Concepts and Revisions
18. Ekphrasis Reshaped. A Different Poetics of Ekphrasis in Hellenistic Poetry, or: A Metapoetics of Aesthetics 335
19. Parapictoriality. Parameters of a Praxeological Aesthetics in Antiquity 365
20. The Art of Illusion and the Aesthetics of Reality 413
21. Aesthetics, Canon, Critique. Transalpine Creative Appropriation and Cultural Hybridity as a Challenge to Archeology and Art History 433
22. Figures and Charts 511
23. Index 515