William Kentridge: In Praise of Shadows

by Ed Schad (Editor), William Kentridge (Artist), Joanne Heyler (Foreword), Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev (Contributor), Zakes Mda (Contributor), Walter Murch (Contributor), Claudia Rankine (Contributor) Thirty-five years of South African artist William Kentridge’s dynamic, cross-genre art, with new essays by Zakes Mda, Claudia Rankine and Ed Schad, and conversations between the artist, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev and Walter Murch. This far-reaching book presents Kentridge’s dynamic art practice, which originates in charcoal drawing and expands into intersections with film, sculpture, opera and theater performances, printmaking and many other mediums. The volume is organized chronologically and thematically, emphasizing Kentridge’s destabilizing of South African and global narratives through openness to uncertainty, the generative power of the artist’s studio and perpetual change, all as conditions for illuminating repressed and silenced voices in historical records.An essay by curator Ed