Words - A Collation Hardback
by William Kentridge
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.
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In Stock - Less than 10 copies availableFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:116 pages
- Publisher:Seagull Books London Ltd
- Publication Date:10/05/2023
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- ISBN:9781803092171
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In Stock - Less than 10 copies availableFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:116 pages
- Publisher:Seagull Books London Ltd
- Publication Date:10/05/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9781803092171