France: Contemporary Art and Architecture Handbook: Art-Sites
Sidra Stich ISBN: 0966771737 Major urban development and decentralization created a dynamic expansion of the arts in France during the last decades of the 20th century. The famous Centre Pompidou in Paris and President Fran ois Mitterand's grands projets (the glass pyramid at the...(read more)
Romanesque Wall Painting in Central France: The Politics of Narrative
Marcia Kupfer ISBN: 0300057202 Monumental wall painting once embellished countless rural churches throughout France during the 11th and 12th centuries. In this book, Marcia Kupfer focuses on the rich, stylistically diverse group of fresco cycles dispersed throughout the medieval...(read more)
Ian Warrell ISBN: 1854372181 On Turner's journey through Brittany and up the River Loire, he filled several sketchbooks with impressions of famous Loire chateaux, such as Amboise, Blois, Chambord and Saumur. Many of his sketches are identified and reproduced in this volume,...(read more)