William Kentridge
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| Rating | : | 4.72 (771 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0810942283 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-13 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Catalog of an Incredible Exhibition William Kentridge is a white South African born in 1955. He is best known for animations, based on large charcoal paintings, which have as their subject the complexity of living a meaningful life in the warped society of South Africa.Kentridge makes the films by working on the charcoal paintings, then clicking the film camera one frame at a time. He then walks back to the painting and works on it, before exposing another twenty-fifth of a second.Kentridge is articulate and interesting and has established himself as a great artist in the tradition of Hogarth, Daumier and the German expressionists. His exhibiti. "a very interesting artist" according to jym davis. I leave off a "star" only because viewing Kentridge's drawings can not substitute the experience of viewing his films. Indeed, looking the charcoal drawings I wonder at what stage of the sequence it is in. Is this the last step in the drawing? Looking at a drawing outside of its time base can also be a positive. I love searching the surface for smudge marks and erased hands and arms. His drawings end up being a record of movement (something that most single drawings fail to capture). For anyone who doesn't know, by the way, Kentridge animates his charcoal drawings using filmic stop motion techniques. The resu
The exhibition will present eleven of Kentridge's powerful and intensely complex animated films. 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. William Kentridge is an exhibition catalogue focusing on the acclaimed films, drawings, and theatrical productions of this important contemporary South African artist. Approximately forty large-scale charcoal drawings, many used in the making of the films
Kentridge is an important voice in art and its expression of social and human issues. Drew Harrington, Pacific Univ. Lib., Forest Grove, OR Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. 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 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 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. From Library Journal