Книги видавництва Skira

Edited by Rebecca A. Senf Over sixty years of work by one of the great masters of twentieth-century photography Photographer Richard Avedon, with a more than six-decade-long career, produced innovative and delightful work in fashion, as well as in...

Forty exemplary works spanning the Post-Impressionist's career, from one of the world's foremost Van Gogh collections The life and work of the most famous artist in the world through a selection of masterpieces. Forty masterpieces by Vi...

The book presents the extraordinary three-dimensional “live sculptures” by the Russian architect, designer, writer and artist. Having some engineering experience, Klyukin was able to experiment and derive a concept of connecting steel ...

The most complete volume on the subject in any language Japanese graphic design has been researched and published in Italy up to the first decade of the new millennium, but there is a gap from then to today. edited by Gian Carlo Calza with Elisabett...

Over 300 works from the beloved early 20th-century illustrator and graphic designer The highly original and unique art of Escher, one of the most celebrated artists of the 20th century Maurits Cornelis Escher was born in 1898 in the Netherlands...

A fascinating and comprehensive reference album of Hiroshige, the last great figure of the ukiyo-e style. The great artist of the Japanese popular school of printmaking, Hiroshige (1797-1858) transmuted everyday landscapes into intimate, lyrical s...

An inner journey into the beauty of simplicity through the masterpieces of one of the largest and best-known collections of Japanese art outside Japan Among the many ways one can approach a distant country there are study, travel, and a special sensi...

A complete overview of the Giorgio Morandi exhibition in NY and Bologna. Giorgio Morandi is an undisputed master of twentieth-century painting. His greatness lies in the balance between an outlook typical of the Age of Enlightenment and the formal...

A who’s who of Italian fashion photographers, from Vogue favorites to rising stars This glamorous, 400-plus-page encyclopedic publication celebrates the innovative legacy of Italian fashion photography, showcasing a broad selection...

The ukiyo-e masters are brought together in a volume that illustrates Japan’s “floating world” between the 17th and 19th centuries. The so-called Edo period (1603–1868) was extremely productive for Japan from a historical a...

The history and art of one of the most important suburban aristocratic residences of the 16th century, among the oldest and most beautiful in the Alps Illustrated by spectacular images, which are the result of a special photographic campaign condu...

In celebration of one of Kusama’s most iconic infinity rooms A tribute to Yayoi Kusama, the world’s most popular artist, according to The Art Newspaper and The Guardian. Yayoi Kusama is one of Japan’s most important and famous...

120th anniversary of his birth, the life and masterpieces by Alfred Hitchcock, a British filmmaker, master of suspense and cinema genius. “If you make a bomb go off, the audience has a shock that lasts 10 seconds, but if you simply tell them...

What was particularly memorable for those who saw Anish Kapoor’s first shows, in the early eighties, was the silence conveyed to the exhibition space by those small sculptures covered with yellow, red, black or blue pigments. When the young ...

Finizio’s theme is one we can see on the streets: having changed the 19th-century city into a “metropolis” of suburbs and highways, the car as an object is, in turn, changing in relation to the modern city. A leading Italian design ...