![]() The Life of Formsremains one of the most brilliant and important applications of biological metaphors to the study of art. ![]() Focillon emphasizes the universal presence of contradictory tendencies that give all styles manifold, stratified character. ![]() 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. 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.If not, help out and invite Henri to Goodreads. ![]() “Classicism, a brief, perfectly balanced instant of complete possession of forms not a slow and monotonous application of ‘rules,’ but a pure, quick delight, like the acme of the Greeks, so delicate that the pointer of the scale scarcely trembles …” ![]()
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