The Life of Forms in Art
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Considers the problem of stylistic change in art, arguing that art is not reducible to external political, social, or economic determinants
Considers the problem of stylistic change in art, arguing that art is not reducible to external political, social, or economic determinants
What is form in modern art? How could a work of art achieve its organic life in a world increasingly dominated by mechanism, by new technology? In this new book
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
To speak about art is to evoke the hand of the creator who produced the work. It is to confer to its gestures the importance of thoughts and to explore their po
"The text is at once a meditation on theories of form and an essay on the painter Gerhard Richter as a philosophical pragmatist. Richter serves as the inspirati