Focusing on the Enlightenment, Romanticism, and the modern periods, contributors from linguistics, art history, music, dance, literary history, and perceptual psychology explore the complex relation between the study of appearances in science and in art. A unifying theme is the perceptual process by which sensory data are integrated into a mental gestalt or are transformed into a verbal or visual representation. The 14 essays (making them $13.57 each) cover appearances and the semiotics of culture; visual perceptions and verbal representation in the literature of the 18th and 19th centuries; sensory and illusory effects in art, music, and dance; and visual metaphors and textual shadows. Lightly illustrated. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.