#THE LIFE OF FORMS FOCILLON ARCHIVE#
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#THE LIFE OF FORMS FOCILLON SERIES#

This series of lectures and seminars jointly organized by Villa I Tatti – The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies and the research group Rinascimento conteso of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max Planck Institut aims to reassess the Renaissance as a historiographic paradigm. In 2012, she was awarded the Jacob Burckhardt Prize by the Max Planck Institut in Florence. In 2011, she was a visiting member of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Princeton. Before arriving at Yale in 2015, she taught art history at the universities of Berlin (2012-14), Bern (2007-09), Hamburg (2011), Heidelberg (2009-11), and Stanford (2006). Nicola Suthor is Professor of the History of Art in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures of Yale University, where she teaches Northern and Southern Baroque art.

Please join us for aperitivi in the courtyard after the event concludes. Suthor will investigate how Focillon's vitalist assertions are grounded in his strong emphasis on technique, opening up a conceptual pathway by which we can reconsider the pathos of the form beyond its formula. Secondly, he shatters the historical systematic development of art by comparing the flow of time to a whirlpool, an image that permits us to conceive of the associations between different forms, in terms of resonances or anticipations, within a single immanent form.

Firstly, he questions the normative value of the concept of classicism and foregrounds what comes chronologically before and after in order to redefine classicism’s universality, which he distinguishes from normativity. JSTOR 772442.Henri Focillon's Life of Forms (1934) challenges the central role of the Renaissance within the history of art in several different ways.

#THE LIFE OF FORMS FOCILLON ARCHIVE#

Works by or about Henri Focillon at Internet Archive.

La liberté des formes, traduction de Sara Longo, révisée par Elise Koering, Strasbourg, Presses universitaires de Strasbourg, 2021, ('Historiographie de l'art', 2).

Annamaria Ducci, Henri Focillon en son temps.

L'art bouddhique (1921, 'Buddhist Art').

De Callot à Lautrec: Perspectives de l’art français ('From Callot to Lautrec: Perspectives on French Art').

La peinture au XIXe et XXe siècles (1927-1928, 'Painting in the 19th and 20th Centuries').

Art d'occident 2 : Moyen Âge gothique (1938).

Art d'occident 1 : Moyen Âge roman et gothique.

Vie des formes (1934, 'The Life of Forms').

He remains best known for his works on medieval art, most of which were translated into English. A poet, printmaker, and teacher, Henri Focillon formed generations of art historians including George Kubler. Professor of Art History at the University of Lyon, at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, at the Sorbonne, at the Collège de France and then in the United States, where he went into exile and taught at Yale University. He was Director of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon. He was the son of the printmaker Victor-Louis Focillon. Henri Focillon (7 September 1881 – 3 March 1943) was a French art historian.

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