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William Kentridge: Tapestries (Philadelphia Museum of Art)
Carlos Basualdo, Gabriele Guercio, Ivan Vladislavic, Okwui Enwezor
Yale University Press
Yale University Press
South African artist William Kentridge (b. 1955) has produced an outstanding body of work in multiple mediums—drawings, animations, sculptures, theater and stage design—all of which trace the fraught political and cultural history of South...
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Max Beckmann
Susanne Bieber, Barbara Buenger, Charles Haxthausen, Jill Lloyd, Nina Peter, Ortrud Westheider, Anette Kruszynski, Robert Storr, Max Beckmann, Leon Golub, Ellsworth Kelly, William Kentridge
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Max Beckmann was among the greatest painters of the 20th century, yet no retrospective of his work has been mounted in the art capitals of New York, London, and Paris in over 30 years. Perhaps the lapse of attention has to do with the importance of...
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William Kentridge (Contemporary Artists)
Dan Cameron
Phaidon Press
Phaidon Press
Examining the black and white animated films of William Kentridge, this volume discusses the political and philosophical dimensions of drawing, a term the artist applies equally to his works on paper, film and theatre productions. It surveys...
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William Kentridge: Black Box/Chambre Noire
Maria-Christina Villasenor, William Kentridge
Guggenheim Museum
Guggenheim Museum
In the course of designing his recent production of Mozart's The Magic Flute, artist and animated filmmaker William Kentridge created a mechanized theater maquette. When he saw the miniature stage's potential as sculpture, projection site, and...
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Animated Painting
Betti-Sue Hertz, Suzanne Buchan, Lev Manovich
San Diego Museum of Art
San Diego Museum of Art
Illustrated with approximately 235 color images and packaged with a DVD of selected videos, Animated Painting brings together some of the most compelling recent contemporary art to combine traditional conceptions of painting and drawing with the...
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William Kentridge Flute
Edited by Bronwyn Law-Viljoen
David Krut Publishing
David Krut Publishing
William Kentridge FLUTE is a dense collection of essays, photographs and images tracking the internationally famous South African artist's explorations into and production of Mozart's The Magic Flute. Kentridge's production of the opera premiered in...
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White: Whiteness and Race in Contemporary Art
David Roediger, Patricia Williams, Nancy Burson, Wendy Ewald, Mike Kelley, William Kentridge, Barbara Kruger, Gary Simmons, Nayland Blake
Center for Art and Visual Culture, UMBC
Center for Art and Visual Culture, UMBC
Over the past 20 years, the cultural and scholarly discourse around race has exploded to include the study of whiteness and white privilege, representing a radical shift in the way we think and talk about race in the United States. Since the advent...
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Beautiful/Ugly: African and Diaspora Aesthetics
Duke University Press
Duke University Press
In Cameroon, a monumental “statue of liberty” is made from scrap metal. In Congo, a thriving popular music incorporates piercing screams and carnal dances. When these and other instantiations of the aesthetics of Africa and its diasporas are taken...
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