William Kentridge: Smoke, Ashes, Fable (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780300230253)

South African artist William Kentridge (b. 1955) has become famous for his time-lapse animation movies and installations, as well as his activities as an opera and theater director. This book offers a unique selection of Kentridge's work curated for Sint-Janshospitaal in Bruges--at 800 years one of Europe's oldest surviving hospital buildings - organized around the themes of trauma, healing, and compassion. The book features an introduction by Margaret K. Koerner, and also includes essays by diverse distinguished contributors: Benjamin H. D. Buchloh considers Kentridge's alternate reception of the historical avant-garde from a perspective of exile; Joseph Leo Koerner explores the artist's work as a self-styled process of "working through" in which the past simultaneously disfigures and redeems; and Harmon Siegel examines Kentridge's approach to film history.

Distributed for Mercatorfonds

Exhibition Schedule:

Groeningemuseum, Bruges
(10/21/17-02/25/18)

Author: Margaret K. Koerner
ISBN-10: 0300230257
ISBN-13: 9780300230253
Publisher: Mercatorfonds
Language: English
Published: 01/23/2018
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 3.10lbs
Size: 12.20h x 9.30w x 1.00d