The year 1947 was a crucial one for Christian Dior. It was then that the fashion designer simultaneously founded his maison and his perfume factory in Paris.The success of Christian Dior's first essence, Miss Dior, was so outstanding as to leave its…
This catalogue documents the first exhibition in the Middle East by KAWS (Brian Donnelly, born 1974, USA). The solo show explores his career and vast oeuvre and features paintings and sculptures made over the past 20 years.KAWS' imagery has long pos…
Elliott Erwitt (Paris, 1928) is one of the most important and most brilliant photographers of the 20th century. He has been a member of Magnum Photos since 1953. This volume retraces the work of Elliott Erwitt through 136 black & white photographs h…
"Without Caravaggio, Ribera, Vermeer, La Tour and Rembrandt could never have existed ... and the art of Delacroix, Courbet and Manet would have been utterly different." --Roberto LonghiDramatic shifts from foreboding dark to probing light, with mini…
A selection of around fifty paintings traces the evolution of Impressionism and takes us on a journey along the river, from Paris to Le Havre, passing through Argenteuil, Vetheuil and Giverny.hroughout the nineteenth century, artists painted the Sei…
Ewa-Mari Johansson's personal research should be interpreted as a general work-in-progress. It is endowed with a sort of internal coherence that appears as stages of a single dialectic path without a real beginning or a definite end.Ewa-Mari Johanss…
Over 60 years since the legendary cooperative photographic agency began, the Magnum photographers have borne witness to some of the most important moments in cultural history, recording the making of many of history's classic films.Magnum Photograph…
A guide to one of the greatest artists of all time; compact and up to date.These pages are intended as a compact up-to-date guide for readers wishing to find out more about one of the greatest artistic geniuses of all times, an artist epitomising th…
The volume is the first publication dedicated exclusively to the theme of Italian perfumery. A real manual, divided into three parts, offering a summary of the perfumes produced in Italy, reviewing the great brands that have made the olfactory taste…
This publication accompanies an exhibition of British sculptor Tony Cragg's (born 1949) latest sculptures and never-before-seen drawings and watercolors at the Ludwig Museum in Koblenz. Over the last 30 years, Cragg has developed an inexhaustible re…
This monograph documents the complete works of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (Milan, 1571 - Porto Ercole, 1610).It aims at highlighting the master's integrita and the fascination of his extraordinary art.Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was a m…
Original posters and a wide range of vintage ephemera revive the unmistakable visual identity of Italian aperitif Campari.Since the nineteenth century, Campari has been responsible for some of the most distinctive and innovative commercial imagery c…
Regarded as one of the most influential architects and designers of the twentieth century, Gio Ponti (1891-1979) was a prolific creator, as much interested in industrial production as in handicrafts, who has revolutionised post-war architecture whil…
Among the three most renowned Flemish Baroque painters--Rubens, Van Dyck and Joardens--Jacques Joardens (1593-1678), also known as Jacob Jordaens, is undoubtedly the least studied. Yet the image of Joardens as a poor man's Rubens obscures the better…
Marino Marini (1901-1980) was among the most famous and successful of all post-war Italian sculptors. This book celebrates the themes for which he was best known: equestrian statuary and female nudes. Flavio Fergonzi explores the meanings of Marini'…
Iraqi-American artist Michael Rakowitz's (b. 1973, USA) first major European survey presents a sequence of installations drawing on architecture, cultural artefacts and cuisine to tell stories of social ritual, conflict and loss. It encompasses work…
Dedicated to American artist Sandy Skogland, this book accompanies her first anthological exhibition at CAMERA in Turin, Italy. It retraces the entire path of the artist interweaving her biography with her professional progress, documented with the…
A refined anthology collecting the most beautiful shots by Horst P. Horst, master of twentieth century photography.The name Horst P. Horst is synonymous with timeless elegance and sensual sophistication. A leading artist at Vogue magazine for six de…
A rich selection of Robert Capa's work as a war photographer.In 1938 Robert Capa was described by the prestigious English magazine Picture Post as "The best war photographer in the world". Although his work is in many ways lyrical and sometimes even…
American photographer Francesca Woodman produced six artist's books during her short, troubled life. Presented here is a facsimile edition of one of those notebooks.They are refined and evocative objects, created from old school notebooks found in R…
With this book we invite the reader to discover List's multi-faceted work, by exploring many masterpieces and some lesser known work side by side.The elusive oeuvre of the German photographer Herbert List is hard to categorise. He worked in almost e…
Jessica Lange was granted a scholarship from the University of Minnesota to study photography in 1967, but the vicissitudes of student life led her to Spain and Paris where she chose to put dramatic arts before practical photography.Having left phot…
Marlene Dumas (born 1953) is one of the most highly regarded contemporary painters working today.Sorte attests to the Marlene Dumas' ongoing interest in the dialectic between the physicality of the human body and the metaphysical themes that attend…
This catalogue includes Christo and Jeanne-Claude's realised and unrealised large-scale projects from 1961 to 2016. Besides the famous wrapped monuments, from the Kunsthalle in Bern (1967-1968) to the Reichstag in Berlin (1971-1995), the publication…
On the 150th anniversary of the painter Henri Matisse (1869-1954), the Musee Matisse in Cateau-Cambresis, which was founded by the artist in his hometown in 1952, pays tribute to the lesser-known man of the North, who became one of the greatest mast…
A leader of the Pittura Analitica movement, Giorgio Griffa (born 1936) developed a form of gently colorful abstraction comparable to the work of the Supports Surfaces group. This book reproduces 200 paintings that illuminate the most important perio…
The Chinese artist Deng Guo Yuan has spent his entire life dealing with the theme of the garden. He interprets this theme against the background of the knowledge of the Chinese tradition. In the Chinese philosophy of Daoism it is regarded as a 'way'…
This book presents the Gianfranco Luzzetti collection housed in the historic complex of the former convent of the Clarisse in Grosseto, a new museum in the city. The collection is the result of the donation to the Municipality, in 2018, of over 60 w…
In this catalogue of works by Lucio Fontana, one of the greatest Italian artists of the 20th Century, you will find an impressive selection of iconic tagli and pietre paintings as well as ceramics and sculptures spanning the breadth of Fontana's car…
The collected works of photojournalist Paolo Pellegrin, arranged as an illustrated chronology of the main historical events from the last thirty years. Each copy is numbered.This volume presents a survey of the collected works of Paolo Pellegrin (19…
Characterized by a minimal yet vivid stylistic grammar and crude realism, the works of Mexican artist Teresa Margolles (born 1963) presented in this monograph contend with the prevalence of death and violence, particularly in contemporary Mexico, in…
Offers an exhaustive account of this unique human, artistic and intellectual adventure through a comprehensive and up-to-date art historical analysis of Leonardo's work. Accompanied by spectacular illustrations.In the Quattrocento, an era when the r…
The Guatelli Collection is the most important collection of tin boxes for olive oil, from those for export to the ones destined for the domestic market, produced between the end of the nineteenth century and the end of the Second World War.The prest…
Established by the Association for the International Diffusion of French Art (ADIAF) and organised in partnership with the Centre Pompidou, this is one of the most prestigious contemporary art prizes in the world. This year's edition offers an insig…
This book is published on the occasion of an exhibition in Milan, which was first shown in Murcia (Spain) and after in Siena (September 2009 - January 2010), featuring a selection of 114 pictures, some of which are previoiusly unpublished, almost al…
The book Love accompanies the eponymous exhibition at the Collezione Maramotti.This richly imaginative journey through Luisa Rabbia's work between 2009 and 2017, including an essay by Mario Diacono, traces the primary elements of her art: the use of…
A protagonist of the Milanese cultural scene of the 1960s, Italian designer Nanda Vigo (Milan, 1936) began producing her Cronotopi in 1963, in the spirit of ZERO, the transnational group of German, Dutch, French, Belgian, Swiss and Italian artists.P…
Time is Out of Joint presents the heritage of the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome in light of the new installation curated by its director Cristiana Collu. A revolutionary exhibition plan that has greatly modified the public'…
This book introduces the work of Piero De Martini (1939), one of the key figures in Italian design during the last 30 years of the 20th century.This book explores De Martini's methods, based on the close dialogue between designers, artisans and art…
The volume traces the history of tin signs in Italy from their birth to their diffusion, from 1890 to 1950, using a selection of almost one thousand works. novel and exciting journey that will allow the reader to grasp the essential difference betwe…
African photographers' innovative role is highlighted in the process of understanding generational and social changes.On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of independence for seventeen African countries, the Museum for Fine Arts in Brussels in pa…
Il Sassoferrato: Devout Beauty reconstructs, for the first time, the creative process of Giovan Battista Salvi, known as Sassoferrato (1609-85), from drawing to finished work. Living in Baroque-era Rome but keeping his distance from contemporary tre…
Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition, the book presents the evolution of the pictorial work of Anna Conway (Durango, Colorado, 1973) from her debut up to the last works of 2016. It is the first monograph dedicated to the American pa…
Mona Hatoum: Turbulence brings to the forefront the diversity of Mona Hatoum's work over the last 30 years.Published to accompany an exhibition in 2014, curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath of Art Reoriented, the book's premise builds on the a…
Published to accompany a show at PAC in Milan, which explores other continents through collective shows of contemporary art: this summer Brazil will be in the spotlight.Knife in the Flesh (Navalha na Carne) is the title of a play by Brazilian writer…
Frederic Borel graduated from the Special School of Architecture in 1982, and afterwards became laureate of the PAN XIII, of Albums de la jeune architecture and the villa Medici horsles-murs.Established in Paris since 1985, Frederic Borel has develo…
Paintings, installations, sculptures and photographs from around fifty artists compose a chronological course of the different currents of non-conformist art in the former U.S.S.R and Russia.The Tretyakov Collection was created between 1983 and 2008…
