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PublisherPhaidon Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100714843695

ISBN-139780714843698

eBay Product ID (ePID)73163731

Product Key Features

Book TitleAnish Kapoor

Number of Pages528 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2009

TopicSculpture & Installation, Individual Artists / General, Museums, Tours, Points of Interest

IllustratorYes

GenreTravel, Art

AuthorDavid Anfam, Johanna Burton, Donna De Salvo

Book Series20th Century Living Masters Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height2.2 in

Item Weight106.2 Oz

Item Length11.3 in

Item Width9.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2010-502426

Dewey Edition22

Reviews"Well-designed and well-illustrated... The texts provide the backbone of what is [...] a superior picture book."--Frank Whitford, The Sunday Times "Impressive... Anish Kapoor... has the same sensual enticement as his sculptural works."--Rachel Campbell-Johnston, The Times "Comes wrapped in blood-red plastic that recalls the wax currently coating the London Royal Academy's walls and door frames for the artist's blockbuster exhibition... [A] gorgeous pictorial record."--Siobhan Murphy, Metro, "Well-designed and well-illustrated... The texts provide the backbone of what is [...] a superior picture book."-- Frank Whitford, The Sunday Times "Impressive... Anish Kapoor ... has the same sensual enticement as his sculptural works."-- Rachel Campbell-Johnston, The Times "Comes wrapped in blood-red plastic that recalls the wax currently coating the London Royal Academy's walls and door frames for the artist's blockbuster exhibition... [A] gorgeous pictorial record."-- Siobhan Murphy, Metro

Grade FromSeventh Grade

Grade ToCollege Graduate Student

Dewey Decimal730.92

SynopsisAnish Kapoor's sculptures are as mysterious as they are beautiful. Although they employ a wide range of traditional and non-traditional materials, their real subject is often immaterial and ungraspable: a chasm, a reflection, a column of air. Kapoor belongs to a generation of British sculptors (Tony Cragg, Richard Deacon, Antony Gormley) who revived sculpture by injecting it with new vitality, even playfulness, in the wake of Minimalism. It should come as no surprise, then, that he is one of the best-loved artists working today, the recipient of numerous international awards (including the Turner Prize) and the creative force behind some of the most popular public sculptures in contemporary art, including Marsyas in the Tate Modern Turbine Hall (2002) and Cloud Gate in Chicago's Millennium Park (2004)., Anish Kapoor (b.1954) is one of the world's most prominent artists, as the creator of popular public sculptures around the globe ? including Cloud Gate (2004, Millennium Park, Chicago), Mirror (2006, Rockefeller Center, New York) and Tarantara (1999-2000, Gateshead and Naples) ? and the recipient of numerous international awards, including the Turner Prize (1991). This is the most extensive monograph ever published on the artist, covering more than 30 years of work and illustrated with hundreds of full-color images of sketches and technical diagrams from his most ambitious projects. In a range of materials, from the traditional (alabaster, sandstone) to the high tech (polished steel, PVC), Kapoor's unique vocabulary of natural shapes and abstract forms has changed the course of contemporary sculpture. Anish Kapoor includes an extensive chronology covering the artist's life in detail and is illustrated with snapshots, sketches and ephemera, some never published until now.

LC Classification NumberNB1010