Книги издательства Skira

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 excellence of Italian design through 100 vases from the beginning of the last century to the present. What, if anything, sets an “Italian” vase apart from the vast numbers of vases produced worldwide? A vase is both an everyday obj...

1000 Vases shines a light on unique pieces made by independent designers from over 35 countries A vase is never merely a container. As Georges Braque once said, "the vase gives form to emptiness": ever since the earliest human civilizati...

A leading representative of the Russian avant-garde, Alexander Rodchenko (1891–1956) revolutionized the world of graphic art, design and photography. The over 250 illustrations featured in this volume allow the reader to grasp the full force...

Alphonse Mucha was an extraordinarily prolific and versatile artist who made his mark in the diverse fields of design – including posters, jewellery, interior decoration, theatre, packaging and product designs – as well as in painting, bo...

Over the past fifteen years, Beijing has experienced unprecedented change - a change more dramatic and profound than ever before. Contemporary skyscrapers and architectural forms are gradually enclosing the historic city center. Steel and glass struc...

What is dance? It is motion. What is Motion? The expression of a sensation. What is Sensation? The reaction in the human body produced by an impression or idea perceived by the mind. Loïe Fuller was one of the leading and most influential ...

Fernando Botero is the best known Colombian artist of all times. His work is found in many international collections and is also known to be very well represented in several important donations he himself has made to his nation. There is no part of t...

- This monograph documents the complete works of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (Milan, 1571 - Porto Ercole, 1610) - It aims at highlighting the master's integrità and the fascination of his extraordinary art - Michelangelo Merisi da ...

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...

The relationship between art, nature and fashion in the creations of the Venezuelan designer that conquered public and critics around the world. Fashion and art have always had intimate and fruitful relations, accompanying social change and, in pa...

The most complete monograph realized about the noted Austrian painter, photographer, filmmaker, performer and set designer, born in Vienna in 1948. The works of Helnwein show the bare truth where society instead hides and removes. What emerges by ...

Crewdson's epic photographic trilogy -- a portrait of America a decade in the making Over the past three decades, Gregory Crewdson has been fleshing out a portrait of middle America, an America gazing wide-eyed at the glimmers of a fading drea...

The extraordinary Italian heritage of art and nature. The volume is published in a completely revised edition, updated and extended with the inclusion of all new properties, illustrating places and monuments that over the years have become part of...

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...