A Concise History of French Painting - [Used]

Εκδοση:1971 Σελίδες:288 Πολύ καλή κατάσταση. Περιγραφή: The story of French painting is as outstanding for its complex richness as it is for its continuity. Yet throughout six centuries of its development as a national school these runs a unifying thread: the 'sense of truth', an unsparing detachment and penetration in the observation of human character and even of human fantasy. French painters have expressed the heights of religious emotion, defiance, fury, desire and perhaps madness, and yet have remained true to their own inborn lucidity of vision. In a dazzling piece of art history, Edward Lucie-Smith not only sets out to map the course of brings out as much as possible of the individual qualities of the painters-over 150 of them-who have mad the most powerful contributions to French painting. From Fouquet to Dubuffet, from the Ecole de Fontainebleau to the Ecole de Paris, a whole culture reveals itself through an unbroken procession of universal masterpieces of art.