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The life of forms in art /
Language: English Original language: French Publication details: New York : Zone Books, ©1989.Description: 190 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cmISBN:- 0942299566
- 9780942299564
- 0942299574
- 9780942299571
- Vie des formes. English
Contents:
Summary: 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.
Translators' foreword -- Introduction / Jean Molino -- The world of forms -- Forms in the realm of space -- Forms in the realm of matter -- Forms in the realm of the mind -- Forms in the realm of time -- In praise of hands.
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Translation of: Vie des formes.
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Wittenborn, Schultz, 1948.
Translators' foreword -- Introduction / Jean Molino -- The world of forms -- Forms in the realm of space -- Forms in the realm of matter -- Forms in the realm of the mind -- Forms in the realm of time -- In praise of hands.
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.
Translation of: Vie des formes.
