Seminar with Cornelia Zumbusch. The Life of Forms.
Friday, February 21, 2020 - 12:00pm
Location:
William Harkness Hall, Rm 309
100 Wall Street, 3rd Floor
New Haven, CT
The seminar discussion is based on Professor Zumbusch’s paper “The Life of Forms” (see below).
In the paper, Professor Zumbusch refers to essays by Henri Focillon, Aby Warburg, and Walter Benjamin. These essays are also provided here (in the Focillon excerpt see in particular p. 35-41).
The seminar starts with a light meal available at 11:45.
For attending the seminar please register with Rudiger.Campe@Yale.edu.
Download the readings below.
Zumbusch_The life of forms.pdf
Warburg_The Absorption of the Expressive Values of the Past
