William Kentridge

by Cameron, Dan

• ISBN13: 9780714838298
• ISBN10: 0714838292
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-09-16
• Publisher: Phaidon Press

Summary

Internationally renowned South African artist William Kentridge creates animated movies from "drawings for projection," charcoal renderings he alters during filming. Paralleling the political upheaval in his homeland, his works reflect the tenuous nature of memory, both personal andhistorical.Published to accompany Kentridge's first retrospective exhibition in the United States and South Africa, this fascinating book offers in-depth coverage of the artist's animated films, drawings, and theater productions. Kentridge has also created 16 new, previously unpublished "artist's pages" for the book. A wealth of colorplates, essays, and an interview exploring various facets of Kentridge's creative process, and a chronology outlining both his and his country's milestones make this book the most comprehensive examination of Kentridge's work to date.

Author Biography

Dan Cameron is a curator based in New York. As Senior Curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art he organized such landmark exhibitions as 'Cocido y Crudo' (1994), a survey of from Latin America, and has since gone on to curate the 8th Istanbul Biennial (2003) and the Taipei Biennial (2006). He also serves on the graduate teaching faculty of Columbia University, New York University and School of Visual Arts, New York, and is a frequent contributor to such journals as Parkett, Flash Art and Artforum.

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev is Chief Curator at the Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli, Italy.  In 1998 she curated the first major retrospective exhibition of William Kentridge's work, and in 1999 she edited Arte Povera, also published by Phaidon.

J. M. Coetzee is one of South Africa's most distinguished authors and was awarded the Booker Prize in 1983 for his novel Life & Times of Michael K. His other award-winning novels include In the Heart of the Country (1977) and The Master of Petersburg (1994). Coetzee is also Aderne Professor of English at the University of Cape Town.

Table of Contents

Interview
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev in conversation with William Kentridge	p. 6
Survey
A Procession of the Dispossessed	p. 36
Focus
History of the Main Complaint	p. 82
Artist's Choice
Confessions of Zeno (extract), 1923	p. 94
Artist's Writings
Art in a State of Grace, Art in a State of Hope, Art in a State of Siege (extract), 1986	p. 102
Untitled Statement (A Longing for Water), 1987	p. 106
Landscape in a State of Siege (extract), 1988	p. 108
Woyzeck on the Highveld, 1992	p. 112
'Fortuna': Neither Programme nor Chance in the Making of lmages (extract), 1993	p. 114
Felix in Exile: Geography of Memory (extract), 1994	p. 122
Faustus in Africa! Director's Note, 1995	p. 128
II Ritorno d'Ulisse (extracts), 1996-98	p. 130
The Crocodile's Mouth (extract), 1997	p. 132
The Body Drawn and Quartered (extract), 1998	p. 140
Chronology	p. 144
Bibliography, Production Credits, List of Illustrations	p. 158
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