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What do artists such as Rembrandt, David, Gauguin, and Hokusai have in common? A virtuosity of the hand, replies Henri Focillon. The viewer often forgets that behind the works, it is first and foremost a hand and its fingers which guide the paintbrush, the pen, or the stylus. Focillon's text recalls the importance of this part of the body, in which the artist's talent comes to life. Within his lines, he grants the hand the recognition that it deserves and establishes an artistic monument to its gestures.

Author Biography:

Henri Focillon (1881-1943), Professor at the Sorbonne and later at the Collège de France, died at the age of sixty-two in the United States where he had been teaching since 1940. An art historian, he had written major works on Romanesque sculpture and 19th- and 20th-century European painting. Focillon grew up amidst artists such as Édouard Vuillard and Auguste Rodin and the early documenter of Impressionism, Gustave Geffroy.
Release date NZ
April 28th, 2024
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Illustrations
120 Illustrations, color
Pages
256
ISBN-13
9781783105946
Product ID
23069115

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