Download or read book I Am Not Me the Horse is Not Mine written by William Kentridge and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Kentridge's multi-channel projection installation of eight film fragments, entitled I am not me, the horse is not mine, was first presented to international acclaim at the Sydney Biennale in June 2008. The work is based on the absurdist short story, The Nose (1837), by Nikolai Gogol, in which the pompous government official, Kovalyov, wakes up one day to find that his nose has taken on a life of its own and gone for a walk around the city of St Petersburg. In a sequence of comical scenes, the main character attempts - with increasingly ridiculous efforts - to chase after his nose, recapture it and stick it back on his face. I am not me, the horse is not mine stems from the artist's ongoing interest in the roots and development of modernism: a mixture of the absurd, the self-reflective (and the 'self-divided') and its many forms of fragmentation. It also deals particularly with Russia's response to modernism in the 1930s and the histories and terrors of oppression. This exhibition was made possible by the Goodman Gallery.
Download or read book William Kentridge written by William Kentridge and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore William Kentridge's remarkable performance piece, The Head & The Load, and discover how music, dance, writing, and fine art are combined to tell the haunting story of Africans during WWI. For over thirty years, William Kentridge has been combining fine arts, performance, theatre, and opera to create dreamlike, political, and humanist works. His installations , films, and drawings often deal with the political situation in South Africa, apartheid, and the consequences of colonialism. This book gives an in-depth examination of his performance piece The Head & The Load, which explores the role of Africa during World War I. Throughout the war, more than one million Africans carried provisions and military equipment in hazardous conditions for British, French, and German troops at minimal or no pay. William Kentridge tells the story of these African porters who ensured the success of the victors, but remain in the shadows. This history, rarely studied today, unfolds in a staged tableau combining music, dance, acting, screenings, and mechanized sculptures. The book includes photos and text from the performance, essays, and artworks created specifically by Kentridge to complement the play. Accompanied by an international cast of singers, actors, and dancers, and with music composed by Philip Miller, The Head & The Load is a powerful and multifaceted work that reconsiders colonial history and its repercussions in today's world.
Download or read book Six Drawing Lessons written by William Kentridge and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last three decades, the visual artist William Kentridge has garnered international acclaim for his work across media including drawing, film, sculpture, printmaking, and theater. Rendered in stark contrasts of black and white, his images reflect his native South Africa and, like endlessly suggestive shadows, point to something more elemental as well. Based on the 2012 Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, Six Drawing Lessons is the most comprehensive collection available of Kentridge’s thoughts on art, art-making, and the studio. Art, Kentridge says, is its own form of knowledge. It does not simply supplement the real world, and it cannot be purely understood in the rational terms of traditional academic disciplines. The studio is the crucial location for the creation of meaning: the place where linear thinking is abandoned and the material processes of the eye, the hand, the charcoal and paper become themselves the guides of creativity. Drawing has the potential to educate us about the most complex issues of our time. This is the real meaning of “drawing lessons.” Incorporating elements of graphic design and ranging freely from discussions of Plato’s cave to the Enlightenment’s role in colonial oppression to the depiction of animals in art, Six Drawing Lessons is an illustration in print of its own thesis of how art creates knowledge. Foregrounding the very processes by which we see, Kentridge makes us more aware of the mechanisms—and deceptions—through which we construct meaning in the world.
Download or read book William Kentridge Prints written by William Kentridge and published by David Krut Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The publication of this book coincides with an exhibition that opened at the Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Iowa in late 2004 and travels to other museums in the United States through 2007."--Cover p. 2.
Download or read book Flute written by William Kentridge and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Kentridge Flute is a dense collection of essays, photographs and images tracking the internationally famous South African artist's explorations into and production of Mozart's The Magic Flute. Kentridge's production of the opera premiered in Brussels in 2002, and FLUTE was launched in South Africa to celebrate the opera's African premiere in Cape Town. The book is packed with full color illustrations, photographs from the stage productions, pages from Kentridge's preparatory journals and numerous reproductions of the drawings and print works that spilled out of the artist's studio and onto the stage.
Download or read book William Kentridge written by William Kentridge and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South African artist William Kentridge has produced an outstanding body of work in multiple mediums all of which trace the fraught political and cultural history of South Africa. This title explores Kentridge's new series of 17 large-scale tapestries, created under his artistic direction by a team of South African weavers.
Download or read book FOOTNOTES FOR THE PANTHER written by WILLIAM. KENTRIDGE and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book William Kentridge written by William Kentridge and published by UCCA/Koenig Books/Marta and Cosentino. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Notes Toward a Model Opera is a constellation of key pieces spanning 25 years of William Kentridge's output, allowing viewers to understand the range and trajectory of both his artistic sensibility and humanistic concerns. From seminal early films and drawings featuring the semi-autobiographical figure of Soho Eckstein, the catalogue moves on to encompass major recent multimedia installations, recent animations and paintings, and finally the titular project Notes Toward a Model Opera, a new work related to the particular aesthetics and ideals of socialist China. This comprehensive overview offers a pathway to understanding his work particularly suited to the Chinese context and its unique experience of modernity
Download or read book PressPLAY written by Mark C. Taylor and published by Phaidon. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A personal encounter with 50 of the world's most significant contemporary artists, this book draws together the full texts of the complete Phaidon interviews. From highly established artists Louise Bourgeois and Alex Katz, to midcareer masters Richard Prince and Mike Kelley, this is a comprehensive look at contemporary art today.
Download or read book William Kentridge written by William Kentridge and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "William Kentridge emerged as an artist during the apartheid regime in South Africa. Grounded in the violent absurdity of that period in his country's history, his artworks draw connections between art, ideology, history and memory. Curated by the artist, this exhibition encourages viewers to trace visual and thematic links between diverse aspects of his practice, from his engagement with opera to his interest in early cinema, from his inimitable animated drawings to sculpture and works on paper." - Gallery media release.
Download or read book William Kentridge written by William Kentridge and published by Rm. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exhibition is a general review of the work of Willliam Kentridge (b. Johannesburg, 1955) since the end of the 1980s until now. It highlights the way in which it the various media and disciplines in his work are informed and polluted, an artistic process marked by a continuous fluidity, founded in transformation and movement. Best known for his animated films based on the charcoal drawings, Kentridge also the author of engravings, book illustrations, collages, sculptures, and works within the performing arts. Conceived in close collaboration with the artist and designed especially for this venue, the exhibition "William Kentridge: Fortune" emphasizes the unique artistic process of the artist, as well as the interrelation of media that he uses. The exhibition comprises a selection of works with a total of about 284 works - including 38 drawings, 27 movies, 184 engravings and 35 sculptures created between 1989 and 2014.
Download or read book Conflict Time Photography written by Simon Baker and published by Tate. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Conflict Time Photography' explores the relationship between photography and sites of conflict over time, highlighting the fact that time itself is a fundamental aspect of the photographic medium.
Download or read book William Kentridge Domestic Scenes written by William Kentridge and published by Steidl. This book was released on 2022-03 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A luxuriously produced clothbound presentation of Kentridge's formative print series, with previously unseen images This book documents, for the first time, the entire 54 images--as well as an additional 65 plate progressions not previously known to exist--in William Kentridge's important early series of etchings and aquatints, Domestic Scenes(1980). One of today's most respected contemporary artists, Kentridge (born 1955) was only 25 years old and relatively unknown when he made these images, which are pivotal in how they shaped his thinking, studio practice and conceptual approach. Presenting a range of human interactions in domestic environments and revealing influences from Matisse to Francis Bacon, from Giacomo Balla to Niki de Saint Phalle, the prints receive in this book fascinating new commentary from Kentridge, who shares his working methods as well as personal memories of the prints' subjects and creation. Framed by detailed research by Warren Siebrits, the compiler of Kentridge's upcoming catalogue raisonné of prints and posters, Domestic Scenesprovides some of the earliest evidence of the artist "stalking the drawing": returning to the etching plate time and again to make additions and alterations. The book features a tipped-in image and a pull-out poster.
Download or read book Richard Dadd written by Nicholas Tromans and published by Tate Publishing (CA). This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fully illustrated account of Richard Dadd's life and career, this title presents a fascinating exploration of the relationship between art and madness.
Download or read book Lexicon written by William Kentridge and published by A.S.A.P.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lexicon is a facsimile cloth edition of an antiquarian Latin-Greek dictionary which the internationally celebrated South African artist William Kentridge (born 1954) has embellished with black ink drawings of what might seem at first to be animal silhouettes. In reproducing the work (which is uncollected elsewhere), this beautifully designed artist's book mischievously pits the model of the flipbook against the fragility of the antiquarian original, and flipping its pages animates Kentridge's lively, spiky drawings into a continuously morphing image that transforms from a cat to a coffee pot over the course of the book's 160 pages. This image is based on a disintegrating sculpture that reflects the artist's interest in the instability of objecthood. Lexiconis accompanied by a DVD containing a short film in which Kentridge flips the pages himself.
Download or read book 2nd Hand Reading written by William Kentridge and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South African artist William Kentridge draws on varied sources in his work, including philosophy, literature, early cinema, theatre and opera. This publication began life as a film constructed from a succession of drawings made in 2013 on the pages of old books; a second-hand reading in which books are translated into a filming of books, articulating the relationship between drawing, photography and film-making. It is both a narrative and an acknowledgement of the necessity of repetition, inconsistency and the illogical. Kentridge has made many flip books, but at 800 pages this is his most ambitious. He has also been making animated films for two decades.0.
Download or read book Painting the Stage written by Denise Wendel-Poray and published by Skira Editore. This book was released on 2019-02 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evolution of the close bond between the visual arts and opera starting from the nineteenth century up to the early twenty-first century. The intertwining of visual and musical arts at the beginning of the 20th century led to modernism, abstraction and in music, atonality. This meeting of the arts was never so intense as on the operatic stage. In her book Painting the Stage, curator and art and music critic Denise Wendel-Poray first examines historic productions beginning with Schinkel's iconic stage design for Mozart's Magic Flute, before exploring those of the 20th century with Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes and the implication of avant-garde artists in opera up until World War II. Directly after the armistice of 1945, famous artists such as André Derain, Balthus, Dalí, André Masson, and Kokoschka reopened the theaters amidst ruins, thus ushering in a new era of optimism. The event of pop art, happenings, and experimental theatre with the collaboration of artists Robert Indiana, David Hockney, Robert Wilson brought on further developments in the realm of opera. Finally, interviews with world famous artists such as Anselm Kiefer, William Kentridge, Bill Viola, Robert Longo, Jonathan Meese, and Daniel Richter show how their contribution to the genre is making opera today more than ever a form of "total art" or "Gesamtkunstwerk" and a hotbed of contemporary creation.
