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William Kentridge & Peter L. Galison

Author : Peter L. Galison
Publisher : Hatje Cantz Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3775730389
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book William Kentridge & Peter L. Galison written by Peter L. Galison and published by Hatje Cantz Verlag. This book was released on 2011-06-10 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unsere Auffassungen von Zeit verändern sich fortwährend auf vielschichtige Art und Weise. Dies ist eine Untersuchung dieser Verschiebungen und Kämpfe in Form von Zeichnungen und Texten, Musik und Bewegung bis hin zu Filmen und Konzepten. Gegen Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts wurde Zeit übergreifend organisiert: Dörfer, Städte, ganze Länder wurden ihrer »eigenen« Zeit beraubt, als die Uhren mithilfe von Signalen synchronisiert wurden. Albert Einstein stieß mit seiner radikalen Idee, die die Vorstellung eines »überallhörbaren Tik-Tak« zugunsten von Zeiten, die nicht Zeit sind, außer Kraft setzte, auf erbitterten Widerstand. Auch in unserem eigenen Zeitalter wird die Zeit wieder durcheinandergewirbelt – die Zeit wird mit Informationen gekreuzt, sie wird herausgefordert am Horizont Schwarzer Löcher oder sogar von vielen Stringtheoretikern als pure Illusion dargestellt. In einer kongenialen langfristigen Partnerschaft mit Peter L. Galison, Historiker, Autor, Filmemacher sowie Professor für die Geschichte der Wissenschaften und der Physik an der Harvard University, widmet sich der südafrikanische Künstler William Kentridge der Erforschung dieser Ideen in Die Ablehnung der Zeit, ein Projekt für die dOCUMENTA (13), in dessen Entstehen das vorliegende Notizbuch Einblick gewährt. Sprache: Deutsch/EnglischWilliam Kentridge (*1955 in Johannesburg, Südafrika) schloss 1976 ein Studium der Politik und Afrikanistik an der Witwatersrand-Universität in Johannesburg ab. 1976-1978 studierte er Druckgrafik an der Johannesburg Art Foundation. 1981/82 nahm er an der École internationale de théâtre Jacques Lecog in Paris Pantomime- und Schauspielunterricht. Seit den 1980er-Jahren wurde sein Werk in zahlreichen Einzel- und Gruppenausstellungen gezeigt, Fünf Themen etwa war 2010 am MoMA, New York, dem Jeu de Paume, Paris, und an der Albertina, Wien, zu sehen. Kentridge war Teilnehmer der documenta X (1997) sowie der Documenta11 (2002) und ist auch auf der dOCUMENTA (13) (2012) vertreten. Er wurde mit verschiedenen Preisen ausgezeichnet, darunter 2003 mit dem Kaiserring der Stadt Goslar, 2010 mit dem Kyoto-Preis für Kunst und Philosophie. Der Künstler lebt und arbeitet in Johannesburg. Stand: Juni 2012William Kentridge (*1955 in Johannesburg, Südafrika) schloss 1976 ein Studium der Politik und Afrikanistik an der Witwatersrand-Universität in Johannesburg ab. 1976-1978 studierte er Druckgrafik an der Johannesburg Art Foundation. 1981/82 nahm er an der École internationale de théâtre Jacques Lecog in Paris Pantomime- und Schauspielunterricht. Seit den 1980er-Jahren wurde sein Werk in zahlreichen Einzel- und Gruppenausstellungen gezeigt, Fünf Themen etwa war 2010 am MoMA, New York, dem Jeu de Paume, Paris, und an der Albertina, Wien, zu sehen. Kentridge war Teilnehmer der documenta X (1997) sowie der Documenta11 (2002) und ist auch auf der dOCUMENTA (13) (2012) vertreten. Er wurde mit verschiedenen Preisen ausgezeichnet, darunter 2003 mit dem Kaiserring der Stadt Goslar, 2010 mit dem Kyoto-Preis für Kunst und Philosophie. Der Künstler lebt und arbeitet in Johannesburg. Stand: Juni 2012

William Kentridge

Author : Leora Maltz-Leca
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520290550
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book William Kentridge written by Leora Maltz-Leca and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2018-01-26 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction : on the southern tip of Africa -- Process as metaphor : the metaphorics of erasure -- History as process : theaters of politics and Hegel in Africa -- Process/procession : a process of change -- Drawing up, drawing out : drawing as thinking -- Projection : the most promiscuous of metaphors -- Being contemporary up south : world time and other doubtful enterprises

Objectivity

Author : Lorraine Daston
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1942130619
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (421 download)

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Download or read book Objectivity written by Lorraine Daston and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Objectivity has a history, and it is full of surprises. In Objectivity, Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison chart the emergence of objectivity in the mid-nineteenth-century sciences — and show how the concept differs from alternatives, truth-to-nature and trained judgment. This is a story of lofty epistemic ideals fused with workaday practices in the making of scientific images. From the eighteenth through the early twenty-first centuries, the images that reveal the deepest commitments of the empirical sciences — from anatomy to crystallography — are those featured in scientific atlases: the compendia that teach practitioners of a discipline what is worth looking at and how to look at it. Atlas images define the working objects of the sciences of the eye: snowflakes, galaxies, skeletons, even elementary particles. Galison and Daston use atlas images to uncover a hidden history of scientific objectivity and its rivals. Whether an atlas maker idealizes an image to capture the essentials in the name of truth-to-nature or refuses to erase even the most incidental detail in the name of objectivity or highlights patterns in the name of trained judgment is a decision enforced by an ethos as well as by an epistemology. As Daston and Galison argue, atlases shape the subjects as well as the objects of science. To pursue objectivity — or truth-to-nature or trained judgment — is simultaneously to cultivate a distinctive scientific self wherein knowing and knower converge. Moreover, the very point at which they visibly converge is in the very act of seeing not as a separate individual but as a member of a particular scientific community. Embedded in the atlas image, therefore, are the traces of consequential choices about knowledge, persona, and collective sight. Objectivity is a book addressed to any one interested in the elusive and crucial notion of objectivity — and in what it means to peer into the world scientifically.

William Kentridge & Peter L. Galison

Author : Peter L. Galison
Publisher : Hatje Cantz Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3775749837
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book William Kentridge & Peter L. Galison written by Peter L. Galison and published by Hatje Cantz Verlag. This book was released on 2023-12-16 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unsere Auffassungen von Zeit verändern sich fortwährend auf vielschichtige Art und Weise. Dies ist eine Untersuchung dieser Verschiebungen und Kämpfe in Form von Zeichnungen und Texten, Musik und Bewegung bis hin zu Filmen und Konzepten. Gegen Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts wurde Zeit übergreifend organisiert: Dörfer, Städte, ganze Länder wurden ihrer »eigenen« Zeit beraubt, als die Uhren mithilfe von Signalen synchronisiert wurden. Albert Einstein stieß mit seiner radikalen Idee, die die Vorstellung eines »überallhörbaren Tik-Tak« zugunsten von Zeiten, die nicht Zeit sind, außer Kraft setzte, auf erbitterten Widerstand. Auch in unserem eigenen Zeitalter wird die Zeit wieder durcheinandergewirbelt – die Zeit wird mit Informationen gekreuzt, sie wird herausgefordert am Horizont Schwarzer Löcher oder sogar von vielen Stringtheoretikern als pure Illusion dargestellt. In einer kongenialen langfristigen Partnerschaft mit Peter L. Galison, Historiker, Autor, Filmemacher sowie Professor für die Geschichte der Wissenschaften und der Physik an der Harvard University, widmet sich der südafrikanische Künstler William Kentridge der Erforschung dieser Ideen in Die Ablehnung der Zeit, ein Projekt für die dOCUMENTA (13), in dessen Entstehen das vorliegende Notizbuch Einblick gewährt. Sprache: Deutsch/Englisch William Kentridge (*1955 in Johannesburg, Südafrika) schloss 1976 ein Studium der Politik und Afrikanistik an der Witwatersrand-Universität in Johannesburg ab. 1976-1978 studierte er Druckgrafik an der Johannesburg Art Foundation. 1981/82 nahm er an der École internationale de théâtre Jacques Lecog in Paris Pantomime- und Schauspielunterricht. Seit den 1980er-Jahren wurde sein Werk in zahlreichen Einzel- und Gruppenausstellungen gezeigt, Fünf Themen etwa war 2010 am MoMA, New York, dem Jeu de Paume, Paris, und an der Albertina, Wien, zu sehen. Kentridge war Teilnehmer der documenta X (1997) sowie der Documenta11 (2002) und ist auch auf der dOCUMENTA (13) (2012) vertreten. Er wurde mit verschiedenen Preisen ausgezeichnet, darunter 2003 mit dem Kaiserring der Stadt Goslar, 2010 mit dem Kyoto-Preis für Kunst und Philosophie. Der Künstler lebt und arbeitet in Johannesburg. Stand: Juni 2012William Kentridge (*1955 in Johannesburg, Südafrika) schloss 1976 ein Studium der Politik und Afrikanistik an der Witwatersrand-Universität in Johannesburg ab. 1976-1978 studierte er Druckgrafik an der Johannesburg Art Foundation. 1981/82 nahm er an der École internationale de théâtre Jacques Lecog in Paris Pantomime- und Schauspielunterricht. Seit den 1980er-Jahren wurde sein Werk in zahlreichen Einzel- und Gruppenausstellungen gezeigt, Fünf Themen etwa war 2010 am MoMA, New York, dem Jeu de Paume, Paris, und an der Albertina, Wien, zu sehen. Kentridge war Teilnehmer der documenta X (1997) sowie der Documenta11 (2002) und ist auch auf der dOCUMENTA (13) (2012) vertreten. Er wurde mit verschiedenen Preisen ausgezeichnet, darunter 2003 mit dem Kaiserring der Stadt Goslar, 2010 mit dem Kyoto-Preis für Kunst und Philosophie. Der Künstler lebt und arbeitet in Johannesburg. Stand: Juni 2012

Futures of the Study of Culture

Author : Doris Bachmann-Medick
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110669544
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Futures of the Study of Culture written by Doris Bachmann-Medick and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-08-10 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we approach possible but unknown futures of the study of culture? This volume explores this question in the context of a changing global world. The contributions in this volume discuss the necessity of significant shifts in our conceptual and epistemological frameworks. Taking into account changing institutional research settings, the authors develop pathways to future cultural research, addressing the crucial concerns of the cultural and social worlds themselves. The contributions thereby utilize contact zones within a wide range of disciplines such as cultural anthropology, sociology, cultural history, literary studies, the history of science and bioethics as well as the environmental and medical humanities. Examining emerging inter- and transdisciplinary points of reference, the volume invites scholars in the humanities and social sciences to take part in a conversation about theories, methods, and practices for the future study of culture.

Postsensual Aesthetics

Author : James Voorhies
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262372843
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Postsensual Aesthetics written by James Voorhies and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary art exhibitions appeal to cognition as well as the senses, modeling a new and expansive understanding of global aesthetics. In this original work of aesthetic theory, James Voorhies argues that we live in the shadow of old ways of thinking about art that emphasize the immediate visual experience of an autonomous art object. But theory must change as artistic and curatorial production has changed. It should encompass the full range of activities through which we encounter art and exhibitions, in which reading and thinking are central to the aesthetic experience. Voorhies advances the theoretical framework of a “postsensual aesthetics,” which does not mean we are beyond a sensual engagement with objects, but rather embraces the cognitive connections with ideas that unite art and knowledge production. Cognitive engagements with art often begin with publications conceived as integral to exhibitions, conveying the knowledge and research artists and curators produce, and continuing in time and space beyond traditional curatorial frames. The idea, and not just visual immediacy, is now art’s defining moment. Voorhies reframes aesthetic criteria to account for the liminal, cognitive spaces inside and outside of the exhibition. Surveying a wide range of artists, curators, exhibitions, and related publications, he repositions the aesthetic theory of Theodor Adorno, and draws inspiration from Rosalind Krauss and Fredric Jameson, to describe a contemporary “logic of the curatorial.” He demonstrates how, even as we increasingly expect to learn from contemporary art, we must avoid an instrumentalist and reductive view of art as a mere source of information. As Voorhies shows through an analysis of two major global exhibitions, dOCUMENTA (13) (artistic director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev) and Documenta11 (artistic director Okwui Enwezor), and of Ute Meta Bauer’s curatorial work at the Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, it is imperative for artistic research to retain its unique role in the production of knowledge.

Image and Logic

Author : Peter Galison
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226279176
Total Pages : 1002 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (791 download)

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Download or read book Image and Logic written by Peter Galison and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1997-10 with total page 1002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engages with the impact of modern technology on experimental physicists. This study reveals how the increasing scale and complexity of apparatus has distanced physicists from the very science which drew them into experimenting, and has fragmented microphysics into different technical traditions.

The Refusal of Time

Author : William Kentridge
Publisher : Editions Xavier Barral
ISBN 13 : 9782365110075
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Refusal of Time written by William Kentridge and published by Editions Xavier Barral. This book was released on 2012 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Kentridge's recent work is situated on the border between art and science: by examining our perception and understanding of time, he reconsiders the creative process. A work in progress in the truest sense, "The Refusal of Time" continues and deepens the polymorphic, dreamlike, political and humanist body of work developed by Kentridge from his very earliest days as an artist. An installation with performance elements, "The Refusal of Time" was conceived by Kentridge and science historian Peter Galison for Documenta 13, and realized in collaboration with video filmmaker Catherine Meyburgh and composer Philip Miller, both of whom worked with Kentridge and Galison for a year. Time in its various manifestations--narrative, fragmented, slowed down and speeded up; distortions of space-time; simultaneity--is explored through various media, including dance, film, music and spoken word. The book itself is a work of art; it includes sketches and notebooks, all the texts read during the performance, pictures from the rehearsals and workshop as well as highlights of the show, interviews and drawings created specially for it by Kentridge.

Einstein's Clocks and Poincare's Maps: Empires of Time

Author : Peter Galison
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393326047
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Einstein's Clocks and Poincare's Maps: Empires of Time written by Peter Galison and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004-09-14 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Galison's telling of science, the meters and wires and epoxy and solder come alive as characters, along with physicists, engineers, technicians and others . . . Galison has unearthed fascinating material." ("New York Times").

Flute

Author : William Kentridge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flute written by William Kentridge and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Brussels in 2002, and FLUTE was launched in South Africa to celebrate the opera's African premiere in Cape Town. The book is packed with full color illustrations, photographs from the stage productions, pages from Kentridge's preparatory journals and numerous reproductions of the drawings and print works that spilled out of the artist's studio and onto the stage.

Six Drawing Lessons

Author : William Kentridge
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674504259
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (745 download)

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Download or read book Six Drawing Lessons written by William Kentridge and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last three decades, the visual artist William Kentridge has garnered international acclaim for his work across media including drawing, film, sculpture, printmaking, and theater. 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, Six Drawing Lessons is the most comprehensive collection available of Kentridge’s thoughts on art, art-making, and the studio. Art, 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.” Incorporating 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, Six Drawing Lessons 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.

Futures of the Study of Culture

Author : Doris Bachmann-Medick
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110669390
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Futures of the Study of Culture written by Doris Bachmann-Medick and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-08-10 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die Reihe widmet sich zentralen neueren Konzepten und Methoden im Feld der kulturwissenschaftlichen Grundlagenforschung und inhaltlichen Fragestellungen. Sie zielt darauf, die gegenwärtige Diskussion in den Kulturwissenschaften weiter zu profilieren und sie zugleich für die Arbeit in den Disziplinen fruchtbar zu machen: durch die Ausarbeitung interdisziplinärer Schlüsselkonzepte und die Entwicklung einer transkulturellen study of culture. Die Bände gehen überwiegend aus den Literatur-, Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften hervor, aber auch aus der Politikwissenschaft, der Soziologie und den Medienwissenschaften.

A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Author : Ernest Emenyo̲nu
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1847011624
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie written by Ernest Emenyo̲nu and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2017 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frontcover -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Narrating the Past: Orality, History & the Production of Knowledge in the Works of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -- 2. Deconstructing Binary Oppositions of Gender in Purple Hibiscus: A Review of Religious/Traditional Superiority & Silence -- 3. Adichie & the West African Voice: Women & Power in Purple Hibiscus -- 4. Reconstructing Motherhood: A Mutative Reality in Purple Hibiscus -- 5. Ritualized Abuse in Purple Hibiscus -- 6. Dining Room & Kitchen: Food-Related Spaces & their Interfaces with the Female Body in Purple Hibiscus -- 7. The Paradox of Vulnerability: The Child Voice in Purple Hibiscus -- 8. 'Fragile Negotiations': Olanna's Melancholia in Half of a Yellow Sun -- 9. The Biafran War & the Evolution of Domestic Space in Half of a Yellow Sun -- 10. Corruption in Post-Independence Politics: Half of a Yellow Sun as a Reflection of A Man of the People -- 11. Contrasting Gender Roles in Male-Crafted Fiction with Half of a Yellow Sun -- 12. 'A Kind of Paradise': Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Claim to Agency, Responsibility & Writing -- 13. Dislocation, Cultural Memory & Transcultural Identity in Select Stories from The Thing Around Your Neck -- 14. 'Reverse Appropriations' & Transplantation in Americanah -- 15. Revisiting Double Consciousness & Relocating the Self in Americanah -- 16. Adichie's Americanah: A Migrant Bildungsroman -- 17. 'Hairitage' Matters: Transitioning & the Third Wave Hair Movement in 'Hair', 'Imitation' & Americanah -- Appendix: The Works of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -- Index

I Am Not Me, the Horse is Not Mine

Author : William Kentridge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780620425629
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book I Am Not Me, the Horse is Not Mine written by William Kentridge and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Kentridge's multi-channel projection installation of eight film fragments, entitled I am not me, the horse is not mine, was first presented to international acclaim at the Sydney Biennale in June 2008. The work is based on the absurdist short story, The Nose (1837), by Nikolai Gogol, in which the pompous government official, Kovalyov, wakes up one day to find that his nose has taken on a life of its own and gone for a walk around the city of St Petersburg. In a sequence of comical scenes, the main character attempts - with increasingly ridiculous efforts - to chase after his nose, recapture it and stick it back on his face. I am not me, the horse is not mine stems from the artist's ongoing interest in the roots and development of modernism: a mixture of the absurd, the self-reflective (and the 'self-divided') and its many forms of fragmentation. It also deals particularly with Russia's response to modernism in the 1930s and the histories and terrors of oppression. This exhibition was made possible by the Goodman Gallery.

William Kentridge

Author : William Kentridge
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 3791387189
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (913 download)

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Download or read book William Kentridge written by William Kentridge and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore William Kentridge's remarkable performance piece, The Head & The Load, and discover how music, dance, writing, and fine art are combined to tell the haunting story of Africans during WWI. For over thirty years, William Kentridge has been combining fine arts, performance, theatre, and opera to create dreamlike, political, and humanist works. His installations , films, and drawings often deal with the political situation in South Africa, apartheid, and the consequences of colonialism. This book gives an in-depth examination of his performance piece The Head & The Load, which explores the role of Africa during World War I. Throughout the war, more than one million Africans carried provisions and military equipment in hazardous conditions for British, French, and German troops at minimal or no pay. William Kentridge tells the story of these African porters who ensured the success of the victors, but remain in the shadows. This history, rarely studied today, unfolds in a staged tableau combining music, dance, acting, screenings, and mechanized sculptures. The book includes photos and text from the performance, essays, and artworks created specifically by Kentridge to complement the play. Accompanied by an international cast of singers, actors, and dancers, and with music composed by Philip Miller, The Head & The Load is a powerful and multifaceted work that reconsiders colonial history and its repercussions in today's world.

2nd Hand Reading

Author : William Kentridge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780992226312
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book 2nd Hand Reading written by William Kentridge and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South African artist William Kentridge draws on varied sources in his work, including philosophy, literature, early cinema, theatre and opera. This publication began life as a film constructed from a succession of drawings made in 2013 on the pages of old books; a second-hand reading in which books are translated into a filming of books, articulating the relationship between drawing, photography and film-making. It is both a narrative and an acknowledgement of the necessity of repetition, inconsistency and the illogical. Kentridge has made many flip books, but at 800 pages this is his most ambitious. He has also been making animated films for two decades.0.

Billy Apple®

Author : CHRISTINA. BARTON
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781869409135
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Billy Apple® written by CHRISTINA. BARTON and published by . This book was released on 2020-11 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A major study of New Zealand¿s most internationally significant living artist. Billy Apple (born Barrie Bates in Auckland, 1935) is New Zealand¿s most internationally significant living artist and a pioneer of pop and conceptual art. At the Royal College of Art in London from 1959¿62, Apple studied with key contemporaries ¿ notably David Hockney ¿ and staged one of the earliest solo exhibitions in the new `pop¿ art after changing his name, in 1962, to `Billy Apple¿. In 1964 he moved to New York. There, he worked as an art director, developed his art, exhibited extensively with leading artists (notably in the 1964 American Supermarket exhibition with Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns and others), and established one of the first alternative art spaces ¿ `Apple¿ ¿ which hosted some of the new ephemeral activities that enlivened the New York scene in the 1970s. He returned to live in New Zealand in 1990 where he continues to produce his particular brand of conceptual art. Apple¿s work is held in permanent collections from the Tate to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. This is the first substantial book on Billy Apple¿s career. Based on over a decade of research all over the world and unprecedented access to Apple¿s own archive, Billy Apple®: Life/Work chronicles an extraordinary sixty-year career and the art scenes that have sustained it in London, New York and Auckland. The book includes more than 200 illustrations in colour, with a generous selection of reproductions of Apple¿s works as well as other illustrative material."