Translated from French. In this meditation on the problem of style in art history, Henri Focillon describes how art forms change over time. He argues that the development of art is irreducible to external political, social or economic determinants.
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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 o…
"Forms offers a powerful new answer to one of the most pressing problems facing literary, critical, and cultural studies today--how to connect form to political, social, and historical context. Caroline Levine argues that forms organize not only works of art but also political l…
