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William Kentridge - Rosenthal, Mark; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Auping, Michael; Christov-Bakargiev, Carolyn; Frieling, Rudolf; Butler, Cornelia H; Hecker, Judith B; Biesenbach, Klaus; Kentridge, William - Yale University Press

Mar 23, 2009
264 p., 9 1/2 x 10 1/8
297 color illus.
ISBN: 9780300150483
ISBN-10: 0300150482
Hardcover with DVD: $50.00
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Published in association with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Norton Museum of Art

William Kentridge

Five Themes

Edited by Mark Rosenthal; With contributions by Michael Auping; Cornelia H. Butler, Judith B. Hecker, and Klaus Biesenbach; Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev; Rudolf Frieling; and William Kentridge

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With a searing body of work ranging from drawings and films to prints, tapestries, and sculptures, William Kentridge (b. 1955) has offered a fresh and distinctive glimpse of the daily lives of South Africans—both during the apartheid regime and after its collapse. This extraordinary catalogue, produced in close collaboration with the artist, investigates the five primary themes that have engaged Kentridge over the course of his career:

- Soho and Felix: works featuring Kentridge’s best-known characters, the businessman Soho Eckstein and his alter ego, the anxiety-ridden Felix Teitlebaum.

- Ubu and the Procession: inspired by Ubu Roi, these projects reflect the excitement, conflict, and rapid social changes in post-apartheid South Africa.

- Artist in the Studio: an examination of Kentridge’s practice and his emergence as an installation artist.

- The Magic Flute: work related to the artist’s set designs for Mozart’s opera.

- The Nose: Kentridge’s most recent production, including work inspired by his staging of the Shostakovich opera for New York’s Metropolitan Opera in spring 2010.

Kentridge has created a DVD especially for this publication; it includes fragments from significant film projects (both known and newly completed) as well as commentary that sheds further light on the artist’s work.

Mark Rosenthal is adjunct curator of contemporary art at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida. Among his many publications are Joseph Beuys: Actions, Vitrines, Environments and The Surreal Calder, both published by Yale.

EXHIBITION SCHEDULE

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (March 14 – May 31, 2009)

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas (July 11 – September 27, 2009)

Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida (November 7, 2009 – January 17, 2010)

Museum of Modern Art, New York (February 28 – May 17, 2010)

Albertina, Vienna (October 30, 2010 – January 30, 2011)

Israel Museum, Jerusalem (March 5 – May 29, 2011)

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (July 7 – October 2, 2011)

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