William Kentridge
Subtitle: thick time
By: editors, Iwona Blazwick and Sabine Breitwieser
Contributors: Blazwick, Iwona, editor; Breitwieser, Sabine, editor; Whitechapel Art Gallery; Louisiana (Museum : Humlebæk, Denmark); MdM Salzburg; Whitworth Art Gallery
Publisher: Whitechapel Art Gallery
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780854882502
Subjects: Exhibitions; Artists
Other titles: Thick time
Work titles: Works
Description: William Kentridge is one of South Africa's pre-eminent artists - internationally acclaimed for his drawings, films, theatre and opera productions. His work draws on varied sources, including philosophy, literature, early cinema, theatre and opera to create a complex universe in which he explores time, history and revolutionary politics. This publication accompanies his first solo museum exhibition in the UK for over 15 years and showcases his most recent and current work.
Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name held at Whitechapel Gallery, London, September 21, 2016-January 15, 2017; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, February 16-June 18, 2017; Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg, July 29-November 5, 2017; and The Whitworth, The University of Manchester, Manchester, September 21, 2018-March 3, 2019.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-252) and filmography (page 244).
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- Iwona Blazwick, Sabine Breitwieser, Poul Erik Tøjner, Maria Balshaw; title: 7 fragments for Georges Méliès, Day for night and Journey to the moon, 2003 --; title: Nine fragments for nine films  -- Iwona Blazwick; title: Tapestries, 2009-2012 --; title: A collaboration with Stephens Tapestry Studio  -- Joseph Leo Koerner; title: The refusal of time, 2012 --; title: Poincaré's present  -- Michael Juul Holm; title: Second-hand reading, 2013  -- William Kentridge; title: More sweetly play the dance, 2015 --; title: The rights of strangers  -- Homi K. Bhabha; title: Lulu, 2015 --; title: Le Théâtre est son double  -- Denise Wendel-Poray; title: Notes towards a model opera, 2015 --; title: Peripheral thinking : a lecture  -- William Kentridge; title: O sentimental machine, 2015 --; title: Performing the archive of history in shorthand -- Sabine Breitwieser.