A glimpse into the mind of one of the most unique sculptors of the twentieth century. This monograph considers Mattiacci’s historic adventures starting from the 1960s, when the artist was associated w
An appeal for slowness and heightened awareness ― Eva Vermandel assembles distilled images, calm and sensuous, in Splinter. Her photographs work like the proverbial splinter in the eye of the beholder
Jürgen Messensee (*1936 in Vienna), one the leading artists of his generation, occupies an important position in the fields of painting and drawing in Austria. Nature is the model for Messensee’s work
Gunther Gerlach is widely hailed for having forged a new direction within the long tradition of wood sculpture, with expansive, abstract works that nonetheless remain concerned with form and demonstra
Few objects have been more symbolic in art through the ages than flowers: they have represented freshness and fertility, love in its many manifestations, transience and death. And yet in recent times
Christine Streuli (*1975 in Bern) is one of an international, up-and-coming generation of artists devoted to the medium of painting and directing the discourse on this traditional genre into new chann
A pioneer of Southern California underground culture, Raymond Pettibon (*1957 in Tucson) has blurred the boundaries of “high” and “low“ since the late seventies―from the deviations of marginal youth t
Mouse has a sword. She wears a suit of armour. She is a knight. She is bold Sir Mouse.Dragon does not have a sword. She does not wear a suit of armour. She is just Dragon.Knights fight dragons. But Mo
Explores and explains the myriad typefaces that we see around us in our day-to-day lives, from airplane liveries to computer screens, from billboard hoardings to signage systems. This book presents ov
An exceptional selection of Lichtenstein’s sculptures from 1968 to the end of the artist’s life, from early ceramic sculptures to large-scale public works. The planned exhibition at the Fondazione Ve
Throughout his prolific career as a photographer, Emmet Gowin has threaded together seemingly disparate subjects: his wife, Edith, and their extended family; American and European landscapes; aerial v
Site Specific is a summary of Italian photographer Olivo Barbieri''s ten-year project to record the world''s cities in aerial photographs. On the one hand, the book offers remarkable documentation, by
Look Beyond is a publishing project designed to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the Police brand and to support the work of Medecins Sans Frontieres. Photographic portraits from the worlds of
The prestigious new volume by Skira devoted to international contemporary photography is focused on some of the greatest American masters of the twentieth-century. This will be the first of two books
Eleonora Abbagnato is the prima ballerina at the Opera de Paris. This original volume reveals her artistic versatility through photographs of four celebrated ballets. This is the ideal gift for aspi
This third volume in Skira’s History of Photography series serves as a major reference in the field of photography. The third volume (1941-1980) of the Skira History of Photography series considers t
Marcel Dzama (*1974 in Winnipeg) is known for his prolific drawings, which are characterized by their distinctive palette and subject matter. He has recently expanded his practice to encompass film an
An intriguing collection of portraits by the internationally acclaimed icon of American music, Face Value accompanies a display of Bob Dylan''s previously unseen and unpublished pastels produced for t
The first monograph conceived for the international market devoted to one of the most important Chinese contemporary artists. Known throughout the world, above all for his cycle Great Criticism, in w
Max Kozloff walks down the streets of New York and offers to the viewer his peculiar vision of a colorful, multi-ethnic, and multi-faceted city. A series of funny pictures that can surprise and drive
Vladimir Tatlin (1885–1953) was one of the leading figures of the Russian avant-garde. His heterogeneous body of work ranges from paintings, costume and set designs for the theater, and the invention
Brassai (1899–1984) was the first and is still the most famous photographer to chronicle Paris after dark. Born in Hungary, he came to the French capital in 1924, working first as a journalist and the
Understanding modern more as lifestyle than as style, it is all about clean lines, elegant colour combinations, maximising indoor-outdoor relationships, artfully collecting and displaying design objec
This is the eighth and final volume in the authoritative Birds of Africa series. It covers the Malagasy region, including Madagascar and various islands and archipelagos of the Indian Ocean including
Isabella Berr consciously employs haziness to create an unobtrusive intensity in her mysterious-looking works, evoking in the viewer memories of familiar places and people. She distances herself from
Exposes those responsible for the First World War. This book reveals how accounts of the war's origins have been deliberately falsified to conceal the guilt of the secret cabal of rich and powerful me
The special thing about Boris Mikhailov as a ‘book maker’ is that he thinks of and develops photography in sequences, in spaces and cuts, in the forms of its montage. Viewed as a whole, his books and
Stefano Cerio asserts photography''s ability to render manifest the invisible, what is usually hidden from the eye?not, as the modernist tradition embodied by the "new vision" would have it, by exploi
This Complete Illustrated Works contains the famous tales of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. This delightful book contains almost 200 traditional stories, translated from the great fairy tale collection com
Qatar: Realm of the Possible charts, in the form of a vivid visual journey, the rise and current state of the nation of Qatar. More than 250 masterful and evocative photographs of the Qatari landscape
This unique series harnesses the immediacy and visual appeal of infographics to present scientific facts, information and processes in a whole new way.
“Know’st thou the land where lemon trees do bloom, and oranges like gold in leafy gloom . . . .” In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a journey to Italy was considered an indispensable part of
For its magnificent baroque gardens, Herrenhausen has long been among the most beloved landmarks of Hanover, Germany. Soon it will be cause for even greater celebration with the completion of a major
