Saigon is the city of the yellow anguish, a languidness that possessed the > Europeans that lived in Vietnam. At night, in front of a drink, the memories of flowery young girls in their traditional costumes surrounded by the thick smells of the ngoc man cooking, the feverish sounds of the city's motion piercing through the humid heat of the Asian nights hauntingly reappear.A city of contrasts, Saigon has lived through dramatic changes: the turbulence of the South for which it was renowned was replaced by the terrible coldness of the North and the joyfulness of the city was imposed a rigid doctrine. Saigon became Ho Chi Minh and a new city was created. But although appearances may change, people remain the same. So what came of those changes? A few red flags... and a number of Japanese motorbikes.

Saigon: Ho Chi Minh City (Great Cities Collection)

History

Klaus H. Carl

Asia

New Line Books

Rococo

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Parkstone International

Gothic art finds its roots in the powerful architecture of the cathedrals of northern France. It is a medieval art movement that developed all across Europe for more than 200 years. Leaving Roman roundish forms behind, the architects started using flying buttress and pointed arches to open cathedrals to the daylight. Period of great economic and social changes, the gothic period also saw the development of a new iconography celebrating the Holy Mary, at the opposite to the fearful iconography of dark Roman times. Full of rich changes in all the different arts (architecture, sculpture, painting, etc.), gothic gave way to the Italian renaissance and international gothic.

Gothic Art (Art of Century)

Victoria, Charles

Parkstone Press

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