Anish Kapoor

Among the most acclaimed sculptors of his generation, Anish Kapoor (born 1954) has captured the popular imagination with his biomorphic, optically baffling public sculptures such as the famous "Cloud Gate" in Chicago's Millennium Park and "Sky Mirror" at the Rockefeller Center in New York. The ambition of Kapoor's imagination compels him to reach for the most sensational effects and scales in his work; as he once told an interviewer, his inspirations are "the mythical wonders of the world, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and the Tower of Babel." Published on the occasion of Kapoor's exhibition at Martin-Gropius Bau in Berlin, this ample volume is illustrated with works spanning the length of Kapoor's career. It also includes many new works created for the exhibition, as well as pictures of the monumental installation being conceived for the Martin-Gropius Bau's central atrium.

A massive appraisal of a hitherto little-known aspect of Kapoor’s prodigious output This 400-page volume is the first publication to explore in depth the painting of British artist Anish Kapoor (born 1934). It offers a unique insight into a language that has increasingly been a focus over the last 10 years, but which has also been an integral part of his studio practice since his career began in the late 1970s. In works that sit on the cusp between abstraction and figuration, Kapoor reveals a desire to go beyond the surface that has been so famously explored in his international beloved sculptural works. Image, surface, space and time appear in sometimes delicate but often violent symmetry. With essays from such as acclaimed thinkers as Julia Kristeva and Homi K. Bhabha, with whom the artist has collaborated in articulating his distinctive visual language, this extensive survey traces the trajectory that has led Kapoor to his boldest body of work to date.