Books published by Five Continents Editions

The theatre is the central theme of this fourth volume in our series titled 'Art Brut - The Collection', published to coincide with the fourth Art Brut Biennale.

This book is the most important monograph devoted to the Swiss artist-photographer Beatrice Helg. Text in English and French.

This book is a tribute by a leading contemporary graphic artist to his intaglio printer. While Rene Taze made the prints, Erik Desmazieres began to draw his surroundings, of which he was much inspired. Text in English and French.

This book is the study of the rituals performed by ethnic-Igbo Nigerians living in Italy. It takes us through the customs, rites, and ceremonies carried out in makeshift places of worship created by men and women who gather together on abandoned football pitches or in hangars.

On the plains of Emilia in Northern Italy, there still exist buildings that have no apparent architectural merit and don''t attract anyone''s attention: these derelict farmhouses lie dotted around the countryside, waiting only for someone to rediscover them. In an era when forgetting has become a habit, Giancarlo Pradelli invites us once again to enjoy the pleasures of silence and absence. He adopts the viewpoint of the observer who, in spite of the melancholy of a rural culture that has all but disappeared in the modern world, knows how to convey the dignity of objects created by man. Spare, direct black-and-white pictures that have nothing rhetorical about them. Using the play of the light and carefully balanced compositions, the skeletal shapes reveal buildings transformed by their dereliction, but which in the process have acquired an unwonted grace and elegance. Text in English, French, and Italian.

Placed on UNESCO's World Heritage list in 1979, Mont Tombe, as it was once called, was consecrated to the worship of the archangel Michael in 708 with the construction of a small oratory. This work captures the majesty of Mont-Saint-Michel, the 'Pyramid of the seas', in forty-five sublime black-and-white photographs.

Giving a biographical account of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres' (1780-1867) life and discussing his work within the context of the art movements of the time, this is a monograph on the work of this influential artist.

Presenting a collection of photographs of the Aeolian Islands, this work is a personal visual journey rather than a detailed document of the islands. The photographer identifies with the essence of the locations, blending with them and expressing their changing moods. He also aims to encapsulate the essence of life on these small islands.

This publication draws on the distinction between artistic brothers Antonio and Piero del Pollaiolo.

This title is a look at the study of paintings produced in France in the 15th century, which has led to the rediscovery of several forgotten personalities (such as Jean Hey, Antoine de Lonhy).

A lavishly illustrated catalogue on Asian textiles from the 1920s.

This text is a fresh investigation of American collecting between 1900 and 1914 and of the impact of transatlantic displacements and mass media on the public perception of old master paintings.

A chronological survey of 17th-century Roman sculpture featuring masters such as Bernini alongside lesser-known important figures.

A tour de force of a carver's skill and craftsmanship, the Farnese Cup is the largest cameo hardstone cup to have survived from the ancient world. This book provides that close-up in a series of photographs and varying perspectives that pull back from the delicate infinitesimal cut to the magnificent, perfect whole.

This is the first book dedicated to Fernando Costa, an eclectic, self-taught artist, born in France to a family that arrived in the country on foot from Portugal while fleeing the dictatorship of Salazar in 1970.

The book brings together such relevant archaeological findings of Roman glass manufacturing in Tuscany, as the glass cameo from Torrita di Siena or the chrysography of Arezzo.

Accompanying the first exhibition devoted entirely to Grimm's work and held in the Kunstmuseum in Bern in 2014, this monograph restores Grimm to his rightful place in history of British painting.

In this publication, through the perceptive lens of art photographer Luigi Spina, we discover nine of the most accomplished Hemba creations whose classical style has triggered comparisons with some kouroi sculptures of ancient Greece.

A new kind of figurative art appeared during the 1960s in Europe and the United States. This catalogue includes all its key works, with commentary and analysis by curators and art historians specialising in a movement that left an indelible mark on 1960s Europe.