William Kentridge: Tapestries

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Catalog for exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art December 12 2007-April 6 2008. Illustrated throughout. Essays by Gabriele Guercio Ekwui Enwezor and Ivan Vladislavic. Measures 11.75x10.75 inches. Explores an extraordinary series of seventeen large-scale tapestries woven between 2001 and 2007. The tapestries depict shadowy figures that resonate with his collages of itinerant characters set against the weblike backgrounds of 19th-century maps of Europe and Johannesburg.