| William Kentridge: Process as Metaphor and Other Doubtful Enterprises Contributor(s): Maltz-Leca, Leora (Author) |
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ISBN: 0520290550 ISBN-13: 9780520290556 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $49.45 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Individual Artists - Monographs - Art | Art & Politics - Art | African |
| Dewey: 700.92 |
| LCCN: 2017033918 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 8.3" W x 10.3" (3.05 lbs) 416 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - African |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: What does it mean to render the processes of making art--cutting, pasting, and projecting light--as a series of metaphors for how we think and how we live? And why would an artist embark on such an enterprise? This book considers how renowned artist William Kentridge spins the material operations of the studio into a web of politically astute and historically grounded metaphors, likening erasure to forgetting, comparing animation to the flux of history, and marshaling drawing as a form of nonlinear argument. Placing Kentridge's visual vocabulary and unorthodox methods of production in the context of South Africa's history, Leora Maltz-Leca explores studio process in all of its metaphoric and philosophical dimensions. |