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Life of forms – Faucillon Henri – Hell Marginem – 2025 – ISBN 978-5-908038-16-4

Life of forms
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Henri Focillon's (1881–1943) classic of the French and American art historical traditions, The Life of Forms (1934), is the quintessence of his theory of form. Focillon conceives of artistic form not as a sign or an idea, but as a living metamorphosis in space, matter, consciousness, and time—and as a source of "meanings emanating from itself." Continuing the ideas of German formalists (Wölfflin, Hildebrand) and inspired by Bergsonian vitalism, the author examines the life of artistic forms in a triple cycle: experimentation (testing), "classical" balance (sometimes replaced by refinement), and "baroque" decay. This formal life, according to Focillon, "generates new conditions for the historical, social, and moral life" of man. This approach also allows us to free the concepts of style, materials and techniques in art from their often inherent inertia and to see their active, creative or destructive potential.
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