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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. Softcover 1967 English edition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> THE DISINTEGRATION OF THE GOTHIC STYLE During the 15th century Gothic art entered a late phase a phase in which as often happens the disintegration of the style was accompanied by a concentration of its extreme forms. A style expresses a unified concept of the world to which its methods of expression correspond. However at the end of the Middle Ages France had ceased to be the focal point for Gothic art and national tendencies had a free rein [2-8]. At the same time and this was also the case in France [3] the discipline imposed by reason and logic progressively lost ground to the previously pent-up forces of life which were expressed in an unrestrained profusion of plant decoration [5]. (MP)