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Remarkable portraits of precarious cultures from Mexico to Indonesia and TibetAmerican social documentary photographer and filmmaker Phil Borges (born 1942) has spent the past 25 years of his career dedicated to social justice and the preservation and awareness of different cultural heritages through his photography. His sensitive portraits of indigenous cultures, from Mexico to Ethiopia to Indonesia, are informed by his experiences living wit...

A rich compendium of masterworks from the golden age of printmakingIn the 1500s, the printed image functioned as a tool for storytelling. In addition to being vehicles for Christian subjects, engravings, etchings and woodcuts introduced many Europeans to the myths and aesthetics of Greco-Roman antiquity. These innovative printmaking technologies ensured the widespread distribution of figural motifs that fueled the development of Mannerism, whi...

An eye-opening cornucopia of Islamic metal craftsmanship from the Middle Ages to the 14th centuryThe Aron Collection was first introduced to the public in 1986 with the publication of a highly acclaimed catalog featuring a wide variety of Islamic metalwork pieces. This volume presents the second expert curation of the private English collection, helmed by professor Giovanni Curatola. The text explores the main regional schools that flourished ...

With an ironic and brazen look, Lisette Model was able to capture in her shots the most grotesque aspects of postwar American society. Text in English and Italian.

Expansions, edited by Hashim Sarkis and Ala Tannir, gathers over 80 responses to the question posed by the Biennale Architettura 2021's theme - How will we live together? These contributions act as an extension to the different thematics presented by participants in the galleries in Venice.

This book deals with the theme of landscape by presenting a set of important works by Gustave Courbet and other 19th century artists. Text in English and French.

This book, which Germano Celant had been working on for years, is published posthumously and represents the professional and spiritual testament of the curator, known and respected internationally. Text in English and Italian.

With his black and white photographs of olive trees, Jacques Berthet distances himself from botany and moves closer towards sculpture or drawing. Text in English and French.

The evolution of photography, from the realm of objectivity to a place of fantasy and imagination. Text in English and Italian.

Yto Barrada's artistic practice draws upon the roles of activist, educator, architect, botanist and anthropologist to explore expressions of communality and individual being. Text in English and Arabic.

Illustrated with 56 large-scale paintings, the Ramayana manuscript is revealed to a wider audience for the first time.

This volume is the first of its kind: a publication dedicated exclusively to the history of Italian perfumery and fragrances.

Brings together the photographs of Olivo Babieri from the early 1980s. Text in English and Italian.

Between the 16th and 19th centuries the Jews cultivated their identity in the Italian ghettos, preserving their millenary culture while also drawing from the world that opened up beyond that border.

A founding member of the Progressive Artists Group, M.F. Husain played a leading role in revolutionising art in India

The ethereal, alienating and attractive images shot by Valsecchi, master of architectural photography, inside the construction site of the Philip Morris factory. Text in English and Italian.

Dal disegno all'opera compiuta: con la sapiente guida di Francois Macé de Lépinay, è possibile per la prima volta ricostruire il percorso creativo di Giovanni Battista Salvi, detto il Sassoferrato, che nella Roma barocca visse lontano dai clamori del mondo dell'arte, lavorando con la lena di un artigiano dedito soprattutto alla realizzazione di immagini di devozione che gli valsero il titolo di "pictor virginum". I saggi contenuti nel volume c...

The life and works of architect and urban planner Aymeric Zublena, awarded with a Second Prix de Rome and former President of the Academy of Architecture. Text in English and French.

This volume showcases the perfumes of Christian Dior against the backdrop of his life--the Belle Epoque of his youth, the "Roaring Twenties" of his young adulthood and the postwar period of his success as a fashion designer and perfumer. From 1946, before his first collection had even been debuted, Dior was interested in perfume, launching the iconic Miss Dior fragrance (along with the perfumer Paul Vacher) in 1947, and later gaining great suc...

A monograph on the Griffoni Polyptych, one of the greatest masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance