Books published by Skira

Presents a snapshots from all over the world to capture the true life of the Luceplan collections. This book offers a comprehensive study of 30 years of work, and examines the highly original Luceplan design that boasts an array of prizes and acknowledgements.

Presents a fully-fledged Skira Architecture house organ which presents the Skiras point of view on world architecture. This Yearbook includes: Wall paper; Editorial; Projects; Tools: Index of the Index; and, Work in progress.

Trompe-l'oeil, a French term meaning to trick, the eye, describes a painting that deceives the spectator into thinking that the objects in it are real, not merely represented. To successfully fool the eye of the viewer, trompe-l'oeil artists choose objects, situations and compositional devices using as little depth as possible.

Covers the fundamental events and pivotal works of international art in the 20th century. This book relates how artists reacted to the greatest tragedy of the 20th century and responded to the advent of the society of mass communication and consumption, to the moulding of the world.

Victor Burgin, an artist and sophisticated theoretician of the image was born in Sheffield, England, in 1941. He established himself on the international art scene in the late sixties, as one of the fathers of Conceptual Art. This is a compendium of the history of contemporary American art and a testimony of a sincere and active protagonist.

Art and Nature in Melissa Moore's work Land Ends, a selection of photographs taken on the Hornby Island, Canada, where she retired for several times over 13 years

This series offers a complete, up-to-date survey of the phenomena of the 1900s and the first years of the new millennium through an original, transversal and interdisciplinary analysis of artistic culture in the twentieth century. The second volume analyses and presents the hugely diverse world of artistic production between the two world wars, taking into consideration not only the environment that took shape in the immediate wake of the First World War, from the so-called "return to order" to the re-emergence of a figurative approach (The New Objectivity, Novecento Italiano, Magic Realism) that was profoundly anti-avant-garde yet imbued with strong plastic and semantic values, but also the evolution of an avant-garde that was now historicised, with its second-generation artists (Aerial Painting, the second generation of Futurism). Also considered are the codification of certain phenomena, such as Surrealism, changes in taste (from Art Deco to Novecentismo), as well as art as the expression of the totalitarian regimes, and the outbreak of the Second World War, with the embracing of environments outside Europe, particularly the USA. The chronological boundaries are marked by the birth of the Dadaist experience in Germany and the establishment of Metaphysics in Italy (1917- 1920) on one side and by the birth of the great season of U.S. Abstract Expressionism (1943-1945) on the other.

400 plus miles of electronic fencing combined with 5-8 meter high concrete wall slabs make up the wall that separates Palestinians and Israelis. This book covers that wall.

The ciliary muscle reproduces the effect of a lens and allows the eye to focus or blur vision. The ciliary muscle became the emblem of the critical vision that Diller + Scofidio (+ Renfro) had of their heterogeneous fields of research and experimentation. This title covers their development documenting about twenty works.

Featuring poetic photographs of landscapes, cityscapes, monuments and ruins together, this title offers the reader a compelling insight into this fascinating country.

The art South African artist Candice Breitz draws on contemporary mass culture, devising new systems for understanding reality. This book documents Breitz's work "Mother + Father". She employs darkly humorous and often disturbing tactics to strike out at stereotypes and visual conventions as presented and accepted in the media and popular culture.

Features an array of Eric Owen Moss' works in over 250 illustrations including the Wedgewood Holly Complex, the Beehive and the Box. This monograph includes an interview with the architect and a bio-bibliography.

Simple, direct, and penetrating, the celebrated photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders portrays his subjects like a painter from another age. Thanks to his 11x14 Fulmer & Schwing, an old wooden box dated 1905, which he uses as if he were using a palette and brush, he produces portraits that are rich in detail without being overly psychological.

Presents a veritable film on paper through 92 plates/frames comprising solely images and drawings, colours and architectural references interspersed with 92 pages where words rule. This title condenses an urban and architectural history of more than two thousand years, suggesting a vision for the cities of tomorrow.

Artist Mihail Chemiakin's drawn costume sketches, stage sets and production design come to life in this record of the two-act ballet premiered in St. Petersburg's Mariinsky Theater in 2005. Humorous and engaging, the colorful drawings featured here appeals to ballet fans, costume designers, students of theater and art lovers alike.

Featuring artists such as Leger, Ernst, Picasso, Mattisse, Dali, Fontana, Beuys, Oldenberg, Lichtenstein and Rauschenberg, This book focuses on art, history and culture from 1948 to 1986.

Over the last four decades video art has undergone numerous transformations. In the 80s video took on the form of a projected image that was capable of defining a type of space inside which spectators could move while surrounded by a hypnotic electronic embrace. This title deals with this topic.

Covers the works produced by Arnaldo Pomodoro between 1953 and 2003, supplemented with the a documentary research into the bibliography.

The life, style and colours of the master of the 16th-century Venetian painting. Tiziano Vecellio was a painter, equally comfortable with a range of genres and subjects. Unlike many artists from history whose work has been appreciated only after their death, Titian enjoyed fame and success throughout his career, which spanned over seven decades.

An original catalogue for a travelling exhibition that has already been much talked about. The expressive power of glass emerges from the pages of the Glasstrees catalogue, which travelled from the Venice Biennale to the Museum of Art and Design of New York in February 2012.