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The Life of Forms in Art by Henri Focillon, George Kubler is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Life of Forms in Art about?
In this beautiful meditation on the history of art and the problem of style, Henri Focillon (1881-1943) describes how art forms change over time. Although he argues that the development of art is reducible to external political, social, or economic determinants, one of his great achievements was to lodge a concept of autonomous and organic artistic creation within the shifting domain of materials and techniques. Focillon emphasizes the universal presence of contradictory tendencies that give all styles manifold, stratified character.
Who reads The Life of Forms in Art?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Henri Focillon, George Kubler
- Publisher
- Zone Books
- Published
- 1992
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780942299571
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Art, Philosophy, History
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