Maltz-Leca, L: William Kentridge

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-520-29055-6
Verlag: University of California

Buch, Englisch, 416 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 203 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 1406 g

What does it mean to render the processes of making art—cutting, pasting, and projecting light—as a series of metaphors for how we think and how we live? And why would an artist embark on such an enterprise? This book considers how renowned artist William Kentridge spins the material operations of the studio into a web of politically astute and historically grounded metaphors, likening erasure to forgetting, comparing animation to the flux of history, and marshaling drawing as a form of nonlinear argument. Placing Kentridge’s visual vocabulary and unorthodox methods of production in the context of South Africa’s history, Leora Maltz-Leca explores studio process in all of its metaphoric and philosophical dimensions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Maltz-Leca, Leora

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Afrikanische Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Einzelne Künstler: Biographien, Monografien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
On the Southern Tip of Africa

1 The Politics of Metaphor
Erasing
2 History as Process, or Chasing Hegel out of Africa
Animating
3 Process/Procession
Processing Regime Change
4 Thinking/Doubting/Doubling
Drawing (Up)
5 The Most Promiscuous of Metaphors
Projecting
Being Contemporary Up South
World Time and Other Doubtful Enterprises

Notes
List of Illustrations
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Leora Maltz-Leca is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History and Chair of the History of Art and Visual Culture department at the Rhode Island School of Design.