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William Kentridge is an exhibition catalogue focusing on the acclaimed films, drawings, and theatrical productions of this important contemporary South African artist. Kentridge's work explores the complex and often violent history of his native South Africa, and considers the effects its past will have on its future. The exhibition will present eleven of Kentridge's powerful and intensely complex animated films. Approximately forty large-scale charcoal drawings, many used in the making of the films, will be shown alongside the film projections.

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Library Journal Review

The visceral work of native South African William Kentridge is steeped in the history and culture of his uneasy homeland. Until the mid 1990s, Kentridge was known primarily in South Africa alone, but he has since attracted considerable interest worldwide. This book, which accompanies the first survey exhibition of his work to tour the United States, consists of in-depth essays, a personal interview, and more than 60 pages of well-produced plates. Kentridge has worked on animated films, in theater productions, and in printmaking, but all of his powerful art is deeply rooted in drawing highly expressive charcoal renderings of dark, uncomfortable images that are both serious and ironic. This volume shares images and ideas with two earlier monographs on Kentridge: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev's William Kentridge (Soci?t? des Expositions du Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, 1998) and Dan Cameron & others' William Kentridge (Phaidon, 1999). Kentridge is an important voice in art and its expression of social and human issues. Most academic art collections should own either this book or one of the previous publications. Drew Harrington, Pacific Univ. Lib., Forest Grove, OR (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.