The life of forms in art
By: Henri Focillon.
Publisher: Zone Books
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
Subjects: Form (Aesthetics); Form (Philosophy); Hand
Description: In this text, Focillon insists that art and its meanings are an inherently dynamic system and that the history of art is one of instabilities, fluctuations and discontinuities. Artworks are never static empirical entities or pure optical presences but rather the virtual traces of a ceaseless process of becoming.
Notes: Translation of: Vie des formes.
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Wittenborn, Schultz, 1948.