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Focillon, Henri

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Focillon, Henri (1881–1943)

French art historian. He taught both in Europe and the USA. He was an authority on the Middle Ages, discussed in, for example, Art d'Occident/Art of the West 1938. His writings explore two themes in particular: the role of technique in artistic creation and the extent to which art reflects the world-view of a period.

In Vie des formes/The Life of Forms in Art 1934, he analyses the evolution of style in terms of three interrelated stages: the experimental, the classical, and the baroque.



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