William Kentridge - Royal Academy of Arts

The South African artist William Kentridge Hon RA was born in Johannesburg in 1955 and lives and works there to this day. He is internationally renowned for the expressionism of his work in numerous media, among them charcoal, printmaking, sculpture and film, as well as his acclaimed theatrical and operatic productions. As elusive as it is allusive, Kentridge's art is shaped by apartheid and grounded in the politics of the post-apartheid era, and in science, literature and history, while always maintaining space for contradiction and uncertainty. In a brilliant exposition of Kentridge's output, Stephen Clingman, Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, undertakes a series of enquiries, of walks around the artist and his practice, through the various layers and linkages, crossings and connections of his art. As he proceeds, he considers Kentridge's themes, explores them and proceeds by association to others. Along the way, overlaps, thought-collages, allusions and assemblages come together to create a connective, dimensional way of thinking inspired by Kentridge's own habits of creation.

ISBN:	9781912520732
Publisher:	Royal Academy of Arts
Imprint:	Royal Academy of Arts
Published date:	13 Sep 2022
DEWEY:	709.2
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Sales rank:	4681
Number of pages:	224
Weight:	1346g
Height:	227mm
Width:	298mm
Spine width:	26mm

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