![]() ![]() In the United States, Focillon worked for the cause of Free France, energetically fighting with the word and with the pen for what he hoped would soon be a victory by the Allies. An art historian, he had written major works on Romanesque sculpture and nineteenth- and twentieth-century European painting. Henri FocillonĪ professor at the Sorbonne and later at the Collège de France, Henri Focillon died at the age of sixty-two in the United States where he had been teaching an archaeology course at Yale University since 1940. Art of Our Century, The Chronicle of Western Art, 1900 to the Present. ![]() Romanesque and Gothic (2 vols.), The Year 1000, L'art des sculpteurs romans, and Piero della Francesca.From: Ferrier, Jean-Louis, Director and Yann le Pichon, Walter D. Henri Focillon (1881-1943) taught at the CollAge de France and at Yale University. It has been superbly translated by George Kubler, whose book The Shape of Time was influenced by Focillon.The book also contains a critical introduction by Jean Molino. ![]() The Life of Forms in Art remains one of the most brilliant and important reflections on the morphology of art. Focillon emphasizes the presence of nonsynchronous tendencies within styles that give to artworks a manifold and stratified character. Although he argues that the development of art is irreducible to external political, social, or economic determinants, one of his great achievements was to lodge a concept of autonomous formal mutation within the shifting domain of materials and techniques. In this classic meditation on the problem of style in art history, Henri Focillon 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. One of the most brilliant and important applications of biological metaphors to the study of art. ![]()
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