Böcker utgivna av Skira

Window on the World

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 (with the second coming in 2014) that seek to illustrate the outstanding quality and variety of the works which have marked American photography from the mid-twentieth-century to the present day. This first volume presents a detailed and annotated selection of works executed between the 1940s and 1970s by twenty photographers of undisputed importance--from Edward Weston and Robert Adams to Minor White and Garry Winogrand, from Lee Friedlander down to Stephen Shore--whose pursuits represent benchmarks in the history of contemporary photography. As in the case of other titles in the series, the reproductions of all the works are accompanied by a critical apparatus with texts discussing the area, artists, and research explored.

Developes close and enduring professional relationships with the artistic community in China. In this title, the author tells their stories and depicts their work and personalities in an entirely distinct style, documenting a part of contemporary history and an immensely dynamic time in China.

Suitable for curators, art historians, artists, sociologists, political scientists, citizens of the Arab world and students of art, art history, and the Middle East, this book aims to provide readers with snap shots of the states of mind of intellectually engaged Arab artists.

Describes the development of the Guzzinis company: 100 years of history set out in details, with a succession of protagonists of Italian and international culture such as Gillo Dorfles, Oscar Farinetti, Aldo Bonomi, Robin Levien, Angeletti Ruzza, Karim Rashid, and many other leading designers.

A selection of artworks by international artists dealing with the food theme and all its implications.

Photographer Frederic Aranda's love letter to one of California's most fascinating collections: the Christine Suppes Collection.

Featuring seventy-five countrys contemporary artists, and contributions by experts tracing the origins and history of artistic development in Singapore, this book offers insight on trends arising from the citys young artists and perspectives behind their work.

Conceived as a retrospective, this book illustrates Izus refined artistic research and the work that for over thirty years he has been carrying out.

Cleto Munari was born in Gorizia and he lives and works in Vicenza. After meeting Carlo Scarpa in 1973, who encouraged him in his work, he decided to focus his attention on the area of industrial design, and began to work for some of the most important companies in the world. This book presents Munari's creations in the field of applied arts.

From their forms to their movements, Cartier watches are unique. They are an enduring combination of the unexpected and the classical. This book chronicles Cartier's constant quest for excellence in the manufacture of complicated watches.

Presents a series of commentaries by contemporary connoisseurs (authors, journalists, and cultured men), who explore the sources of men's costume sports, discovery, passions to reveal the traditions and ethos at the basis of the ideal wardrobe.

Includes coverage that ranges from the magical evening at the San Siro celebrating the Centenary to the heart-racing Italian soccer game under the pouring rain in Parma that resulted in the awarding to Inter of the 16th scudetto.

With all its different scales and variations, the landscape is conceived and constructed as an active resource for the future. Illustrated with hundreds of photographs, drawings and plans, this publication presents the author's projects divided into four sections: Energy landscape, Inhabiting nature, New trends and Nursery.

Offers insight into the making of Up in the Air, the largest artwork Tom Friedman has made to date for a solo exhibition at Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall in 2010. This title consists of nearly a thousand meticulously handcrafted objects suspended from the ceiling at different heights an art-work that kept Friedman's studio busy for the years.

Mohammad Rafiq Azam is a world-renowned architect. With more than 200 colour and black-and-white plates, exquisite design sketches and aerial views, as well as watercolour paintings and inspirational phrases, this book offers an introduction and insight into a visionary architect and Bangladeshi contemporary living and culture.

When Jeremy Allyn is assigned Canaletto's Vedute by his teacher as the topic for his dissertation a subject many have already written about he realizes he must find an original perspective. He therefore decides to focus on Canaletto's figures, a secondary feature of his celebrated architectural scenes.

Born in Heilongjiang Province in 1956, Wang Guangyi became one of the great stars of contemporary Chinese art through his Great Criticism series. This title reveals the entire oeuvre of the artist, whose works are classified in China under the genre of Political Pop, and are kept in the collections of the most important museums and foundations.

A collection of previously unreleased photographs by the German artist shot over the past three years between Venice and the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines.

Zainul Abedin (1914-1976), reverently called the Shilpacharya or guru of art, is the architect of the modern art movement in Bangladesh, which began with the setting up of the first Government Art Institute in Dhaka in 1948. This title showcases his work, illustrating his relationship with his country, from various perspectives.

Part of the "Contemporary Arab Artists" series, this title tells the story of Iraqi artist Halim Al-Karim who underwent a harrowing experience during the first Gulf War. Opposing Saddam's regime and its compulsory military service he took to hiding in the desert, living for almost 3 years in a hole in the ground covered by a pile of rocks.

The genesis of the modern art movement in Bangladesh traces back to the partition of India (1947) and the establishment of the Dhaka Art Institute in 1948 by 'Shilpacharya' Zainul Abedin and several of his contemporaries. This book explores Safiuddin Ahmed's extraordinary contribution to Bangladeshi art and society and more.

Kazi Ghiyasuddin (Madaripur, Bangladesh, 1951) has been living between Bangladesh and Japan since 1975, when he took up a scholarship at the National University of Fine Arts and Music in Tokyo. He draws his inspiration from nature to project his desire for harmony and peace on richly textured canvases. This title tells story of this artist.

A fascinating tour among the countless modern and traditional facets of Italy's "big city."

A selection of ten undisputed masterpieces, ten symbols of the city, from the Renaissance to the contemporary age.

A collection of masterpieces from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery Collection. It accompanies an international tour that features 70 twentieth-century paintings and sculptures from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery Collection, including masterpieces by Salvador Dali, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Vincent Van Gogh, Frida Kahlo and many others.