Although the creative impulse surges in revolt against everyday reality, breaking through its confines, it makes pacts with that reality's essential laws and returns to it to modulate its sense. In fact, it is through praxis that imagination and artistic inventiveness transmute the vital concerns of life, giving them human measure. But at the same time art's inspiration imbues life with aesthetic sense, which lifts human experience to the spiritual. Within these two perspectives art launches messages of specifically human inner propulsions, strivings, ideals, nostalgia, yearnings prosaic and poetic, profane and sacral, practical and ideal, while standing at the fragile borderline of everydayness and imaginative adventure. Art's creative perduring constructs are intentional marks of the aesthetic significance attributed to the flux of human life and reflect the human quest for repose. They mediate communication and participation in spirit and sustain the relative continuity of culture and history.

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INAUGURAL STUDY.- The Pas De Deux: Weaving Thought and Act.- THE ARTIST AS MEDIATOR OF EVERYDAYNESS AND INSPIRATION.- The Limits of Creation: The Architect as the Mediator of the Beauty and the Beast.- The Artistic Life, The Art Alive.- The Historical Logic of Non-Verbal Expression in Everyday Life and the Arts: The Perceptual Foundation of the Precept.- The Relevance of Beautiful Infrastructure.- John Steinbeck's Log from the "Sea of Cortez": One of Husserl's Infinite Tasks?.- Reconfiguring Oldenburg and van Bruggen's Free Stamp (1982-1991).- Aesthetic and Historical Contours of Russian Manor as a Genre.- THE MESSAGE OF ART IN THE EVOLUTION OF CULTURE.- Between a Rock and a Soft Place: Finding Creativity in the Face of Oppression.- Mirror, Mirror on the Wall.- The Pain of the Seer in the Civilization of the Blind: Faulkner and Salinger.- Opus Cordis: Reflections of a Contemporary Artist Embracing the Drama of Religious Imagery.- Ecce Homo: On the Phenomenological Problematicity of the Religious Image.- ART AND TECHNE.- Creation Vs. Techne: The Inner Conflict of Art.- Vincent Van Gogh's Irises: Venturing Upon Dizzy Heights.- On the Poetics of Cinema in the Light of the Present Culture.- Art as Informational Readymade.- Oh, Behave! Nothing in Excess or Everything in Good Order: The "Portraits" of Solon and Khilon on a Late Archaic Attic Red-Figure Cup by Oltos.- ARTISTIC AND PHILOSOPHICAL ITINERARIES.- Visualizing Tymieniecka's Approach to Originality.- Artistic and Philosophical Itineraries.- The Only Star in a Nihilist Heaven: A Reflection on the Problematic Identity of History, Art and Cinema.- "Bodher Pratyushe Buddhir Pradip": The Lamp of Intelligence at the Dawn of Artistic Feeling.- The Philosopher's Pupil, Iris Murdoch's Post-ModernAllegory of the Creative Process.- Ra'anan Levy's Metaphysical Space.- MEDIATING INSPIRATION.- Art, Intention, and Communication.- Harold Pinter's Mindscape: His Food-Clothing Paradoxes.- Mediated: The Image as a Performative Interface in the Photographic Relationship.- The Phenomenology of Color [As a Working Methodology for Design Practice].- The Metaperformative and Gendered Space.- A Revised Taiji Diagram to Convey the Unity of World Phenomena.