France Gothique by Hubert, George, Photographs and Text - No date

Ides et Calendes, Neuchettl, Switzerland, No date. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "Franco-Roman art... merged, towards the middle of the XIIth century, with the Gothic... Art known as Romanesque is thick-set and sturdy, ample of form and somewhat arbitrarily decorated, yet, at the same time, expressive and even... 'expressionistic'. Lofty in structure and logically conceived, it is... completely opposed to the Gothic style... But for the top of the churches, a rapid and efficacious device was used, consisting of intersecting ogives... thus dividing the space left to be covered and leading the thrust towards angles to lighten the walls. The thrust of the vaults, driven further still, had to be supported by wall buttresses, they in turn... by flying buttresses propped by the strong outer pillars of the church's most vulnerable parts." [English text] 72 black-and-white architectural photographs; Text in French, English and German.