Anish Kapoor
Subtitle: Svayambh
By: Rainer Crone & Alexandra von Stosch.
Contributors: Von Stosch, Alexandra.; Kapoor, Anish, 1954-
Publisher: Prestel
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Munich; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9783791339689
Subjects: Kapoor, Anish, -- 1954- -- Catalogs
Genres: Catalogs.
Other titles: Svayambh.
Description: "In a distinguished career spanning thirty years, Anish Kapoor has created an ambitious vocabulary of form manifested in sculptural installation and site-specific works. Using materials as wide-ranging as stone, steel, raw pigment, wax and resin, Kapoor confronts his viewer with both the depths of imagined space and the play of surface illusion. This volume surveys the totality of Kapoor's work, with specific focus on his recent installation Svayambh ('self-creation' in Sanskrit), in which a huge block of red wax travels slowly through the museum space, leaving traces of its passage on walls and doorways. The authors provide in-depth analyses of many of Kapoor's major works, placing them in historical and philosophical context, and offering new insights both into Kapoor's work and the wider context of contemporary sculpture."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.