Anish Kapoor Libri

The first major American publication on this important contemporary sculptor. Anish Kapoor is one of a highly inventive generation of sculptors who emerged in London in the early 1980s. Since then he has created a remarkable body of work that blends a modernist sense of pure materiality with a fascination for the manipulation of form and the perception of space. This book—the first major American publication on Kapoor's work—surveys his work since 1979, with a focus on sculptures and installations made since the early 1990s. With more than ninety color images of these ambitious and complex works, three original essays, an extended interview with Kapoor, and selections from his sketchbooks, this book confirms Anish Kapoor's place as one of the most remarkable sculptors working today. Kapoor's work has evolved into an abstract and perceptually complex elaboration of the sculptural object as at once monumental and evanescent, physical and ethereal—as in his famous Cloud Gate (2004) in Chicago's Millennium Park. The works in Anish Kapoor include such striking works as Past, Present, Future (2006), 1000 Names (1979-1980) and When I Am Pregnant (1992). This book, which accompanies an exhibition at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art, offers American readers a long-overdue opportunity to consider the extraordinary clarity, subtlety, and power of Kapoor's art.

Against an increasingly polarizing political backdrop, The Art of Protest takes a visual journey through more than one hundred years of social protest. From the early twentieth century through to the 1960s and 1970s - considered by many the heyday of uprisings - to contemporary social media activism, this illustrative history features iconic posters from world-renowned artists, including from the Amnesty International archives, as well as more spontaneous ephemera from short-lived print collectives and street activists. With a foreword from celebrated artist and activist Anish Kapoor, The Art of Protest showcases more than one hundred posters. It covers key campaigns such as women's liberation, nuclear disarmament, the civil rights movement, climate change, AIDS activism and Black Lives Matter, revealing artists who have pushed boundaries, giving voice to the marginalized, and railed against those who seek to deny people their rights to peace and equality

Since 1997, sculptures by international artists can be viewed on a regular basis in the expansive sculpture park along the banks of the Rhine river. On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Skulpturenpark, this book also presents works by James Lee Byars, George Condo, Markus Lupertz, Tatzu Nishi, Kirsten Ortwed, Manfred Pernice, and Tal R.