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Words – A Collation

English · Hardback

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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.  

Product details

Authors William Kentridge
Publisher Seagull Books London Ltd
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 07.07.2023
 
EAN 9781803092171
ISBN 978-1-80309-217-1
No. of pages 116
Dimensions 289 mm x 223 mm x 15 mm
Weight 608 g
Series Africa List
Subject Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history

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