William Kentridge: In Praise of Shadows

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<p><strong>Thirty-five years of South African artist William Kentridge¿s dynamic, cross-genre art, with essays by Ann McCoy, Zakes Mda, and Ed Schad, a conversation between the artist and Walter Murch, and an unpublished lecture by Kentridge.</strong></p><p>This far-reaching book presents Kentridge¿s dynamic art practice, which originates in charcoal drawing and expands into intersections with film, sculpture, opera and theater performances, printmaking and many other mediums. The volume is organized chronologically and thematically, emphasizing Kentridge¿s destabilizing of South African and global narratives through openness to uncertainty, the generative power of the artist¿s studio and perpetual change, all as conditions for illuminating repressed and silenced voices in historical records.<br>An essay by curator Ed Schad is presented along with studio photography, archival material and illuminating illustrations of Kentridge¿s work, joining essays by globally recognized literary fig