Anish Kapoor

by Anfam, David; Burton, Johanna; De Salvo, Donna

• ISBN13: 9780714843698
• ISBN10: 0714843695
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-12-02
• Publisher: Phaidon Press

Summary

Anish 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).

Author Biography

• David Anfam is an art historian and critic whose awards include the 2000 Mitchell Prize for the History of Art and The Umhoeffer Prize for Achievement in Humanities. Johanna Burton is a critic and art historian. She teaches the Graduate Program in Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. Donna De Salvo is Chief Curator and Associate Director of Programs at the Whitney Museum of American Art.