In Praise of Hands

To speak about art is to evoke the hand of the creator who produced the work. It is to confer to its gestures the importance of thought and to explore their point of convergence on the canvas or the stone. With this text, Henri Focillon delivers one of the most beautiful odes to the hand and, simultaneously, to the talent of artists, studying Hokusai, Cézanne, and even Rodin.