Books published by Skira

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.

A study of African traditional figurative arts that reflects the continents rich artistic and cultural heritage. It reveals the achievements of African artists over thousands of years.

Kata Legrady (Hungary 1974) belongs to that long line of artists for whom an object offers the stimulus for artistic thought. This is a monograph on Kata Legradys works presenting a collection of drawings, photographs, sculptures and video-installations.

Over a period of thirty years, Erling Neby has been building up a collection which is unequalled in the Nordic countries and is of international standards and fame. This book gives an insight into the international constructivist art from the 1940s to today.

Deals with the hidden soul of a group of creative individuals which, since the beginning, has always expressed itself in images. This book illustrates the life of the studio, tracing an unconventional figurative path made up of suggestions, inspirations, memories, faces and places.

An account of one of the most interesting phenomena of contemporary architecture: the return to the structure and methods with which contemporary constructions are realized.

David Breuer-Weil, one of Britain's most powerful and original contemporary artists. He studied at the Central Saint Martins School of Art and Clare College, Cambridge. From the late 1980s until the late 1990s he worked as a specialist in Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary art at Sothebys, London. This title deals with the work of David.

Gino De Dominicis (1947-1998) is one of the most emblematic and mysterious figures on the post war Italian art scene. A complex and elusive artist, Gino De Dominicis (1947-1998) is considered one of the key figures in contemporary Italian art and a reference point for both the artists of his time and younger generations. His life has always been shrouded in mystery. He chose to stay outside the sphere of media communications and due to this intransigent position no catalogues or books on his works were published. This catalogue brings together more than 700 artworks, each one accompanied by a dossier which, alongside the usual technical data, provides information regarding the circumstances that led to the work's creation. It also includes a section devoted to the artist's writings, a critical anthology and a general catalogue of his works.

Emilio Vedova's artistic career began in Venice in the mid-1930s. He immediately felt the deep allure of grand Venetian painting and sculpture and, guided by the restless agitation and dynamic mobility of the baroque, was soon plunged into total and extreme three-dimensional involvement. This title presents the sculptural journey of this master.

Alberto Lattuada is a fashion illustrator and a stylist. This is a selection of the themes Alberto Lattuada proposed to his students during his fourteen years at Polimoda in Florence, accompanied by beautiful drawings.

Eleonora Abbagnato is the prima ballerina at the Opera de Paris. This volume reveals her artistic versatility through the photographs of four celebrated ballets. It opens with an original interview by Valeria Crippa, journalist and ballet critic.

A collection of ads selected by the Art Directors Club Italia. It investigates the relationships between economic austerity and the media, arts, fashion, technology, music, environment, social responsibility and the future.

Takes us on a European tour through the palaces and the works of art belonging to royal and princely figures who have marked the histories of their dynasties and countries. This book sheds light on European sovereigns and their splendour: from Augustus the Strong and King of Poland to the Emperor Franz Josef and Empress Elizabeth of Austria.

Offers an interpretation of contemporary reality of India and South America through the language of images.