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The first important monograph devoted to this grand master of Italian contemporary interior design: creator of numerous design furnishings. This volume presents a vast panorama of architectural and design projects created from 1986 onwards. 1986 is a turning point in Michele De Lucchi's career for it represents the year of the creation of his famous Tolomeo lamp, the most extensively sold lamp in the world. It has been designed to come in vari...

Divided into five sections, the volume is the catalogue of the Agrati Collection, an important collection of contemporary art with over 400 works by leading artists of the major artistic movements of the second half of the 20th century. Among the movements covered are Action Painting, Hyperrealism, Minimalism, Conceptual Art, Land Art, and Arte Povera.

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Since the 1940s Gianni Mattioli's collection of modern art has been a touchstone of the history of twentieth-century collecting, both for the quality of its masterpieces and for its underlying program. Mattioli was guided by the double purpose of representing and re-establishing the major movements of modern Italian art and of presenting them coherently to the public.This major new contribution to our knowledge of Italian modern art is the cat...

A tribute to Roberto Capucci, one of Italy's most famous fashion designers. Considered one of the fathers of Italian fashion, Capucci represents the excellence of Italian creativity combined with a unique taste for colour that is flanked by the ability to choose the rarest of fabrics, some produced expressly for him. This book illustrates the original creativity, the great versatility and the absolute contemporaneity of the Capucci universe, t...

First exhibited in the late 1970s, the Transavanguardia seemed to oppose radical experimental media in a return to expressive practices in painting and sculpture. The Transavanguardia first achieved notice with an exhibition held at the Kunsthalle, Basel, and participated in the 1982 Documenta 7. These five artists--Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente, Enzo Cucchi, Nicola De Maria and Mimmo Paladino--were quickly recognized as a distinct movement ...

When Neapolitans speak of 'the museum' they are referring to the Museo Archeologico Nazionale. Among the marvels that make it the world's greatest collection of classical art, the Alexander mosaic was, from the moment it was brought to the museum in 1843, the 'great mosaic.' Although it is evident that the Pompeian mosaic reproduces a painting, since it was discovered in the House of the Faun on 24 October 1831 the identity of the original has...

A breath-taking view of Carpaccio's teleri (large canvasses) filled with the legendary lives of saints and amazing narrative details by the best storytelling talent of the Venetian Renaissance. The book illustrates and brings together for the first time in a single volume the great cycles of works that Vittore Carpaccio painted in various phases of his career for the scuole of his city. Together these works comprise 30-odd canvasses of various...

Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, CopenhagenWith a Beauty All Its Own "I called this collection the Glyptotek to demonstrate that it was not a museum with the usual need for scientific order and completeness, where art works often stand freezing, alien to each other in a heterogeneous mixture. No, it was to be a place 'wo Marmorbilder stehen und sehen dich an', where the statues are displayed in festivity and harmony, to grace the life of the living." (...

Kristian Gullichsen, Erkki Kairamo and Timo Vormala have created over the years a partnership grounded on individual differences and on a fundamental agreement on what should be and can be, today, the mission of architecture. Each one of their executions is the description of a small adventure, as well as a familiar place, steeped in recollections and expectations. Whether it be an industrial plant, a town centre or a public housing district, ...

Skira Library of Architecture is an instrument -- new, clear and concise -- able to document and explain the complex world of architecture and its changes through a series of monographies devoted to great masters and emerging figures, essays, manuals and handbooks characterized by clearness and completeness.

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The notion of the separation between spirit and matter, inferiority and exteriority that runs through all of Western philosophy is the starting point for the work of the American artist Ann Hamilton.Trained as a sculptor, Ann Hamilton has always strived to reconcile body and soul, thought and matter, the living and the inanimate, by creating works that have a great "physicality" made with everyday objects, organic animal, vegetable and human m...

Created in collaboration with the Archivio Opera Piero Manzoni (Onlus) this volume is the first complete cataloging of the work of Manzoni. A major figure in the art scene of Europe in the late 20th century, Manzoni interpreted the cultural experiences of his time and mixed and matched them, furiously inventing a vast variety of found materials and media, from cotton to "shit, " kaolin to polystyrene, and fiberglass to the human body.Manzoni (...

The first monograph on an "alternative" artist in contemporary Chinese art. In the reformulation of values in contemporary Chinese art, Wang Luyan's concepts and methodologies differentiate his from those that have been most popular. The most significant characteristic is his transformation of artistic concepts into the commonplace through social relations and everyday experience. In other words, they have become extensions of everyday life, s...

Beautifully illustrated, this is the first volume in the groundbreaking Great Masters of Bangladesh series of monographs. 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 pioneering group included, among others, Safiuddin Ahmed, Anwarul Haque and Quamrul Hassan. Over t...

On the occasion of the ninetieth birthday of Beverly Pepper, an illustrated biography of her life's work. Beverly Pepper has spent her lifetime at the forefront of monumental sculpture worldwide. From her first twenty-foot sculpture in Spoleto in 1962 to her four forty-foot columns in the Federal Plaza, New York, her work ranges in varying scales across three continents - many collected here for the first time. As a pioneer in the use of diver...

Man Ray (1890-1976) was a photographer, painter, and creator of objects, experimental films and images which were at times enigmatic. This book presents images with biographical details, enables the creative process involved in each work and reveals the mechanisms and motivating sources of the artist's inexhaustible imagination.