Books published by Skira

Italian postwar artist Nuvolo (1926-2008) extended the two-dimensional rectangular format of painting with commonplace textiles and materials such as deerskin. With works produced between 1952 and 1965, this book contextualizes his work.

A series of film works, sculptures, and new wooden high-reliefs by the Egyptian artist inspired by the Crusades and narrated from an Arab rather than a European point of view.

Growing up in the Islamic Republic of Iran, the artist Shiva Ahmadi recalls, she knew more about Jackson Pollock than Behzad, the master miniature painter of the Safavid court. Indeed, Ahmadi's distinct painterly style seems to combine the detailed precision of Behzad's hand with the fluid action painting of Pollock. What emerges is part miniature, part abstract expressionism. Shiva Ahmadi was born in Tehran, Iran in 1975 and currently lives and works in Davis, California. She received her BFA from Azad University, Tehran, in 1998; and MFA's from Cranbrook Academy of Arts and Wayne State University.

Art is always a great declaration of love. Through the works of the most important contemporary artists - including Robert Indiana, Tom Wesselmann, Andy Warhol, Tracey Moffatt, Francesco Clemente, Marc Quinn, Gilbert & George, Francesco Vezzoli, and Vanessa Beecroft - and essays by Danilo Eccher, Federico Vercellone, Pierangelo Sequeri, Mattia Fumanti, and Woody Allen, this book deals with one of the universally recognized feelings and source of inquiries and representations, love, telling the different facets and endless variations. A happy love, waiting, misunderstood, hated, ambiguous, transgressive, childish, which winds along an unconventional exhibition, featuring visual and perceptual inputs.

Established in 1949 thanks to the manifold projects Caimi Brevetti has carried out in the sectors of furniture, design and culture, its products are displayed in exhibitions and museums and have enabled the company to play the lead in some prestigious events and important prizes and accolades, including the 21st Compasso d'Oro Award ADI, the International CES Innovations Design and Engeenering Award (U.S.A.), the German Design Award Special Mention and the Trophée de l'Innovation (France)

Friedel Dzubas presents the first scholarly monograph on the German-born American artist whose works display a mastery of color, light, and scale. Celebrated for his monumental, luminous color abstractions, Dzubas has nonetheless been marginalized by misclassification. Often grouped with Color Field artists of the mid-to later-twentieth century, this richly illustrated volume asserts the artist¿s singular ties to historical painterly handling and pictorial structure¿from the animating brush work of Titian to the light-filled, narrative frescoes by Giambattista Tiepolo. Even more, Dzubas¿s abiding ambition to express pictorially his sources of spiritual inspiration in religious allegory and landscape mark his achievement as unique among his contemporaries.