Beautifully written, the text retains clarity in complexity."—Jennifer A. González, Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture, Contemporary Art, and Race and Representation, University of California, Santa Cruz
In 2010, and again in 2013, he staged Dmitri Shostakovich’s The Nose at the Metropolitan Opera; after the premiere, the New York Times noted that “Kentridge, who directed this production, helped design the sets and created the videos ...
This is the real meaning of “drawing lessons.” Incorporating elements of graphic design and ranging freely from discussions of Plato’s cave to the Enlightenment’s role in colonial oppression to the depiction of animals in art, Six ...
It is both a narrative and an acknowledgement of the necessity of repetition, inconsistency and the illogical. Kentridge has made many flip books, but at 800 pages this is his most ambitious.
This October Files volume brings together critical essays and interviews that explore Kentridge's work and shed light on the unique working processes behind his drawings, prints, stop-animation films, and theater works.
South African artist William Kentridge has produced an outstanding body of work in multiple mediums all of which trace the fraught political and cultural history of South Africa.
William Kentridge: Drawing Us Into a New World
This is the first book to document the work of this extraordinary artist, who exploded on the international art scene in 1997 after working for some 20 years little known outside of his native South Africa.
Kentridge made roughly one hundred drawings for the book, using collage on text pages torn from books he has cannibalized for years, such as Mrs Beaton's Book of Household Remedies, and the French Larousse Encyclopaedia, favouring ink and ...
Sculptures using shadow. Black.