Anish Kapoor - Hardcover

Bhabha, Homi

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1905711506 ISBN 13: 9781905711505

Publisher: Royal Academy Books, 2009

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One of the foremost artists of his generation, Anish Kapoor's majestic, beguiling sculptures, awesome in their size and simple beauty, at once demand a physical response and suggest a metaphysical realm. With stunning photographs of signature works, including new pieces that have never been published, Anish Kapoor is the first major monograph of this internationally renowned and popular artist.Employing intense colors and refined surfaces, and working with contrasts between form and void, and light and darkness, Kapoor's work evokes the mystical, and creates optical effects that challenge perceptual certainties. Published to accompany a major exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, this richly illustrated book traces Kapoor's artistic development over the course of a career spanning more than thirty years. Eminent scholars explore the philosophical issues pertinent to his work and examine its place in the history of modern sculpture and in the context of contemporary practice.

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About the Author:

Homi K. Bhabha is the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities and Director of the Humanities Center at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and an expert in post-colonial studies.
Nicholas Bourriaud is a curator and art critic. Formerly Director of the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, in 2009 he will curate the fourth Tate Triennial at Tate Britain, London.
Jean de Loisy is a curator at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
Sir Norman Rosenthal is a freelance curator. He was Exhibitions Secretary at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, for over 30 years.

Review:

"...belongs on every art lover's bookshelf..." ~Papercity Magazine Houston

"Kapoor’s oeuvre lovingly captured in this coffee-table monograph magnifies his intentions, blurring borders between architecture and sculpture. As the razor-sharp commentary by Harvard scholar Bhabha illustrates, Kapoor’s leviathan-sized objects essentially work as architecturally arcane generators of mythic and poetic experiences for onlookers." ~ArchNewsNow.com

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