Richard Deacon Boeken

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.

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This is the first investigation into the claim that Roger Hollis was the fifth man in "Spycatcher". Written like a psychological thriller, it puts forward evidence to show who the real mole inside M15 was and reveals the importance of the Oxford connection to treachery within the British security services. The book also reveals secrets about a member of the Royal Family and the espionage connections of one of Britain's most powerful and richest men. Richard Deacon is the pseudonym of Donald McCormick, a former foreign correspondent of and later foreign manager of the "Sunday Times". He was the first writer to expose Anthony Blunt in his book "The British Connection" , which was withdrawn from publication after four days following an injunction.