Words – A Collation: A Collation (The Africa List)

by William Kentridge

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An exploration of phrases and excerpts that inspire a major contemporary artist.
 
Over 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. And these phrases, which he has written into a studio notebook titled Words, 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. The text excerpts come from many sources: Aimé Césaire, Yehuda Amichai, Sigmund Freud, James Joyce, Setswana proverbs, the Book of Ecclesiastes, Tristan Tzara’s Dada Manifesto, 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. Cleverly designed by the artist and beautifully produced, Words is a thought-provoking collection that provides a window to the mind of a contemporary creative genius.
 
  • ISBN10 1803092173
  • ISBN13 9781803092171
  • Publish Date 10 May 2023
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Seagull Books London Ltd
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 116
  • Language English