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    This document discusses Anish Kapoor's sculpture "Svayambh" and references several other works and scholars. It describes "Svayambh" as a block of red wax that is slowly moved between galleries along rails, almost imperceptibly transforming as it takes on the shapes of the doorways. It references other scholars who have discussed Kapoor's works and categorized his style as minimalist or a late modernist.

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    This document discusses Anish Kapoor's sculpture "Svayambh" and references several other works and scholars. It describes "Svayambh" as a block of red wax that is slowly moved between galleries along rails, almost imperceptibly transforming as it takes on the shapes of the doorways. It references other scholars who have discussed Kapoor's works and categorized his style as minimalist or a late modernist.

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    Mirror Intervals: References to Anish Kapoor's Works and Ideas

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    This document discusses Anish Kapoor's sculpture "Svayambh" and references several other works and scholars. It describes "Svayambh" as a block of red wax that is slowly moved between galleries along rails, almost imperceptibly transforming as it takes on the shapes of the doorways. It references other scholars who have discussed Kapoor's works and categorized his style as minimalist or a late modernist.

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    3.

    Mirror Intervals
    1. Terry Smith, The Architecture ofAftermath (Chicago: University of
    Chicago Press, 2006).
    2. Nicholas Baume, "Floating in the Most Peculiar Way," in Anish
    Kapoor: Past, Present, Future, exhibition catalog, ed. Nicholas Baume
    (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008), 26. Regarding Kapoor as a late
    modernist with minimalist tendencies, see Partha Mitter, "History,
    Memory, and Anish Kapoor," in Baume, Anish Kapoor, 107.
    3. See Terry Smith, What 1s Contemporary Art? (Chicago: Chicago
    University Press, 2009).
    4. Anish Kapoor, in Homi Bhabha and Anish Kapoor, "A Conversation:
    June 1, 1993," in Anish Kapoor, exhibition catalog (Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv
    Museum of Art, 1993), 60.
    s. Anish Kapoor, "Mythologies in the Making: Anish Kapoor in
    Conversation with Nicholas Baume," in Baume, Anish Kapoor, 50.
    6. Svayambh is a Sanskrit term meaning self-generation. Kapoor's
    Svayambh consists of a block of red wax that is moved almost
    imperceptibly along rails between galleries. The sculpture seems to
    transform itself throughout this process by taking on the shapes of
    the doorways.

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