{"product_id":"william-kentridge-phaidon-contemporary-artists-series-9780714838298","title":"William Kentridge (Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWilliam Kentridges (b.1955) black-and-white  animated films offer an emblematic and unprecedented insight into the South Africa of today  from the hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to traces of apartheids violence in the landscape around Johannesburg. This is the first book to document the work of this extraordinary artist  who exploded on the international art scene in 1997 after working for some 20 years little known outside of his native South Africa. The images in Kentridges films depict political realities  expressed in terms of individual human suffering. They are patiently made up of dozens of drawings  often made from the erasure as well as the addition of lines and forms. A weeks drawing can give rise to just 40 seconds of animation. Socio-political traumas such as apartheid and the Holocaust are enigmatically narrated through his melancholy  tormented images. Like some of the Expressionists who also relied on strong draughtsmanship  such as Max Backman and Kathe Kollwitz  Kentridge presents politically engaged art via depictions of the personal. This invaluable book is the first extensive monograph available on his work.  American curator and critic Dan Cameron surveys Kentridges work withing the context of politicized art practice while analysing the formal innovations of his animation techniques. European art critic and curator Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev discusses with the artist the political and philosophical dimensions of his relationship to drawing. Booker Prize-winning South African novelist J. M. Coetzee focusses on the artists animated film History of the Main Complaint (1996) as a pivotal point in the development of Kentridges best-known characters Soho Eckstein and Felix Teitlebaum. The Artists Choice selection is an extract from Confessions of Zeno (1923) by Italo Svevo  which reflects the autobiographical content of the artists work. Kentridges writings span meditations on the process of drawing  the political situation in South Africa and traditions of representation upon which he has drawn  ranging from Goya and Hogarth to Beckmann and Eisenstein.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45275425013813,"sku":"ByrdShop_0714838292","price":239.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780714838298.jpg?v=1780506595","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/william-kentridge-phaidon-contemporary-artists-series-9780714838298","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}