| William Kentridge: Smoke, Ashes, Fable Contributor(s): Koerner, Margaret K. (Author), Koerner, Margaret K. (Contribution by), Buchloh, Benjamin H. D. (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 0300230257 ISBN-13: 9780300230253 Publisher: Mercatorfonds OUR PRICE: $49.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Individual Artists - Monographs - Art | History - Contemporary (1945- ) - Art | Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General |
| Dewey: 709.2 |
| LCCN: 2017953110 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 9.3" W x 12.2" (3.10 lbs) 232 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: South African artist William Kentridge (b. 1955) has become famous for his time-lapse animation movies and installations, as well as his activities as an opera and theater director. This book offers a unique selection of Kentridge's work curated for Sint-Janshospitaal in Bruges--at 800 years one of Europe's oldest surviving hospital buildings - organized around the themes of trauma, healing, and compassion. The book features an introduction by Margaret K. Koerner, and also includes essays by diverse distinguished contributors: Benjamin H. D. Buchloh considers Kentridge's alternate reception of the historical avant-garde from a perspective of exile; Joseph Leo Koerner explores the artist's work as a self-styled process of "working through" in which the past simultaneously disfigures and redeems; and Harmon Siegel examines Kentridge's approach to film history. |