Cover of Vie des formes

Vie des formes

by Henri Focillon

1948 94 pages eng

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…

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