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Words: A Collation (The Africa List)
Seagull Books
ISBN13:
9781803092171
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An exploration of phrases and excerpts that inspire a major contemporary artist. Over the past several years, renowned South African artist William Kentridge has made a collection of particular phrases and sentences that have called out to him from the pages of whatever he has been reading. And these phrases, which he has written into a studio notebook titled Words, have been put to work in many of his artistic projects. Kentridge has often begun a project by paging through the notebook, waiting for a phrase to claim its place in the new work. The text excerpts come from many sources: Aimé Césaire, Yehuda Amichai, Sigmund Freud, James Joyce, Setswana proverbs, the Book of Ecclesiastes, Tristan Tzara's Dada Manifesto, and a range of eastern European poets. This volume presents a selection made from the notebook, with phrases arranged neither randomly nor with a clear agenda but finding a space in between. Cleverly designed by the artist and beautifully produced, Words is a thought-provoking collection that provides a window to the mind of a contemporary creative genius.
- | Author: William Kentridge
- | Publisher: Seagull Books
- | Publication Date: May 10, 2023
- | Number of Pages: 116 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 1803092173
- | ISBN-13: 9781803092171
- Author:
- William Kentridge
- Publisher:
- Seagull Books
- Publication Date:
- May 10, 2023
- Number of pages:
- 116 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10:
- 1803092173
- ISBN-13:
- 9781803092171