{"title":"William Kentridge","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWilliam Kentridge\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a unique exploration of visual art and narrative, blending drawing, animation, and text to illuminate the creative process. His works delve into the intersections of memory, history, and identity, inviting readers to engage with art as a living dialogue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn titles such as \u003cem\u003eSix Drawing Lessons\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eWords – A Collation\u003c\/em\u003e, Kentridge unfolds his artistic vision with thoughtful reflections and compelling insights that resonate within the broader field of \u003cstrong\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/strong\u003e. His books are a rich resource for those fascinated by the interplay between image and language.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"words-a-collation-by-william-kentridge-9781803092171","title":"Words – A Collation","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn exploration of phrases and excerpts that inspire a major contemporary artist.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOver 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. These phrases, which he has written into a studio notebook titled \u003cem\u003eWords\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe text excerpts come from many sources: Aimé Césaire, Yehuda Amichai, Sigmund Freud, James Joyce, Setswana proverbs, the Book of Ecclesiastes, Tristan Tzara’s \u003cem\u003eDada Manifesto\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCleverly designed by the artist and beautifully produced, \u003cem\u003eWords\u003c\/em\u003e is a thought-provoking collection that provides a window to the mind of a contemporary creative genius.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47433344975084,"sku":"9781803092171","price":56.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781803092171.jpg?v=1774765100"},{"product_id":"six-drawing-lessons-by-william-kentridge-9780674365803","title":"Six Drawing Lessons","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOver the last three decades, the visual artist William Kentridge has garnered international acclaim for his work across media including drawing, film, sculpture, printmaking, and theatre. Rendered in stark contrasts of black and white, his images reflect his native South Africa and, like endlessly suggestive shadows, point to something more elemental as well. Based on the 2012 Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, \u003cem\u003eSix Drawing Lessons\u003c\/em\u003e is the most comprehensive collection available of Kentridge's thoughts on art, art-making, and the studio.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eArt, Kentridge says, is its own form of knowledge. It does not simply supplement the real world, and it cannot be purely understood in the rational terms of traditional academic disciplines. The studio is the crucial location for the creation of meaning: the place where linear thinking is abandoned and the material processes of the eye, the hand, the charcoal, and paper become themselves the guides of creativity. Drawing has the potential to educate us about the most complex issues of our time. This is the real meaning of \"drawing lessons.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIncorporating elements of graphic design and ranging freely from discussions of Plato's cave to the Enlightenment's role in colonial oppression to the depiction of animals in art, \u003cem\u003eSix Drawing Lessons\u003c\/em\u003e is an illustration in print of its own thesis of how art creates knowledge. Foregrounding the very processes by which we see, Kentridge makes us more aware of the mechanisms—and deceptions—through which we construct meaning in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47461370003692,"sku":"9780674365803","price":75.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780674365803-six-drawing-lessons.jpg?v=1774967036"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/william-kentridge.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}