Книги издательства Skira

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...

Over seventy works from museums and private collections trace out the meteoric career of Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988), “enfant terrible” of the art world who quickly became the symbol of the New York multiethnic culture of the Eightie...

A homage to the great Spanish painter of light and sea, among the innovators of Spanish painting, drawing from the Impressionist experience Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (Valencia, 1863 – Cercedilla, 1923) was one of the major Spanish pai...

Originally from Chengdu in China, Kiki Xue first studied mathematics before deciding to become a professional photographer. Since 2010, he has specialized in fashion photography and has naturally settled in Paris. By collaborating with the biggest...

Lee Miller not only Man Ray’s muse, but above all a professional in her own right Model, photographer, muse, the first female war correspondent to report the horrors of the concentration camps liberated by American troops, and 20th-century i...

Leonardo da Vinci and Anatomy: all the power and relevance of this great Renaissance mind. This exhibition catalogue on Leonardo da Vinci the anatomist highlights the mystery of a thought that was both anchored in its time and, combined with a tot...

A compelling insight into the life of one of the most iconic models in the world of 20th-century fashion Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn (1911-1992) was a dancer, photographer, stylist and sculptor, but above all one of the most emblematic models of the 20...

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...

Dealing with the most famous peaks on the planet, divided into the various continents, the book presents, among others, the peaks of the Himalayas and the Karakorum, which form “the roof of the world”. And of course, there is Patagonia, a...

The great story of world photography, from its origins to the present day Photography has been one of the key languages of modernity and with the advent of the digital revolution, it has also established itself as the most used medium in everyday ...

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...

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...

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 ...