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Every Thursday, ArtoftheDay weekly reviews an art book recently published in French. All subjects are covered, whether it is primitive arts or design or even the most contemporary works.

The books we present are not necessarily best sellers or beautiful coffee table objects. Our critics may sometimes be scathing in their comments and if need be will point out any flaw or deficiency. But they only review works which by their originality, novelty and seriousness deserve your attention. Of course this small list is far from being exhaustive.

We do not sell books… In fact, some of the ones we mention are already out of print and only available in second hand copies. But if one of these books should tempt you, we provide whenever possible, a link to an online bookshop that has indicated they can supply it, new or second hand.

And if you are loooking for other art books, go to our Art Shop, where our partners offer every French language art book, new or second hand, presently available.

Here are the books reviewed for you during the last weeks

	Pierre Cardin, 60 ans de création Jean-Pascal Hesse He is at the head of an empire which he checks on constantly. At 88, Pierre Cardin is in his office every day, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, where he first arrived in 1945 directly from Vichy where he worked for the Red Cross. While today he is known for the numerous derivatives that carry his signature – perfumes, glasses, furniture or scarves – in the sixties [...] Read
	Création en France, Arts décoratifs 1945-1965 Côme Rémy Madeleine Castaing, Serge Mouille, Mathieu Matégot, Roger Tallon, Pierre Paulin: what do these decorators have in common? They were all active right after World War II when France needed to be rebuilt and that interior architecture had a role to play to rekindle a taste for beauty. This illustrated catalogue presents the best-known designers as well as the ones [...] Read
	HISTORY OF ART Leo Castelli Annie Cohen-Solal He left his mark on the post World War II art market: the name of Leo Castelli cannot be separated from that of artists such as Barnett Newman, Richard Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns or Richard Serra, which he broadcast from the top of a real franchise of subsidiaries where some of the greatest current gallery owners learned their first steps, such as Larry Gagosian [...] Read
	HISTORY OF ART Le musée invisible Nathaniel Herzberg What do Matisse’s Odalisque à la culotte rouge, Caravaggio’s Nativity with Saint Laurence or Vermeer’s Concert have in common? They are all works of art that have been stolen and never found again (respectively from the Sofia Imber museum in Caracas, the oratory of San Lorenzo in Palermo and the Stewart Gardner museum in Boston). The author [...] Read