Paris Post War: Art and Existentialism 1945-55
- ISBN-10
- 185437124X
- ISBN-13
- 9781854371249
- Category
- Art, French
- Pages
- 238
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1993
- Author
- Dick Wilson
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