... continent, as a line. This third invention of Africa was ... continent was invented was in the nineteenth century, when, with a rush, Europeans came from the shoreline into the center, dividing the continent among themselves, staking claims ...
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
"The publication of this book coincides with an exhibition that opened at the Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Iowa in late 2004 and travels to other museums in the United States...
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 ...
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.
In the course of designing his recent production of Mozart's The Magic Flute, artist and animated filmmaker William Kentridge created a mechanized theater maquette. When he saw the miniature...
William Kentridge: Drawing Us Into a New World
The exhibition is a general review of the work of Willliam Kentridge (b.