Anish Kapoor (Langue anglaise)
Category: Books,Arts & Photography,Individual Artists
Anish Kapoor (Langue anglaise) Details
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 Read more About the Author Jean de Loisy is former curator of contemporary art at the Cartier Foundation, and he managed the contemporary gallery at the Centre Pompidou. He has organized several large exhibitions on subjects ranging from representations of Beauty (Avignon, 2000) to the sacred (Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2008).Homi Bhabha is Director of the Humanities Center and the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University. Bhabha advises key arts institutions including the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and the Rockefeller Foundation. He is an expert on contemporary post-colonial studies, and he published the celebrated work Location of Culture in 1994. Read more
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This book is visually diverse and stimulating. Scale is well represented, implied really, in the photographic process. The book is one a reader can review in a momentary or lengthy occasion and receive value. It would serve as an ideal gift or for personal pleasure.