Waterstones Six Drawing Lessons
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Price: £31.95
Brand: Waterstones
Description: Over the last three decades, the visual artist William Kentridge has garnered international acclaim for his work across media including drawing, film, sculpture, printmaking, and theater. Rendered in stark contrasts of black and white, his images reflect his native South Africa and, like endlessly suggestive shadows, point to something more elemental as well. Based on the 2012 Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, Six Drawing Lessons is the most comprehensive collection available of Kentridge's thoughts on art, art-making, and the studio. Art, Kentridge says, is its own form of knowledge. It does not simply supplement the real world, and it cannot be purely understood in the rational terms of traditional academic disciplines. The studio is the crucial location for the creation of meaning: the place where linear thinking is abandoned and the material processes of the eye, the hand, the charcoal and paper become themselves the guides of creativity. Drawing has the potential to educate us about the most complex issues of our time. This is the real meaning of 'drawing lessons." Incorporating elements of graphic design and ranging freely from discussions of Plato's cave to the Enlightenment's role in colonial oppression to the depiction of animals in art, Six Drawing Lessons is an illustration in print of its own thesis of how art creates knowledge. Foregrounding the very processes by which we see, Kentridge makes us more aware of the mechanisms | ??and deceptions | ??through which we construct meaning in the world.
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Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9780674365803
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ISBN: 9780674365803
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Author: sammy strawberry
Rating: 5
Review: I am a great fan of William Kentridge's Art, and having heard him talking on a programme about Lines on BBC R4, when this book was mentioned, I ordered it and couldn't put it down after it arrived. It is a written version of six lectures he gave, and whilst it cannot hope to give the same result as being present for these, it is worth buying the book. His way of explaining the process of making art, what it can really mean, and what goes on in his studio to complete his work is clear but wide-reaching, drawing on politics, geography, history, geology, art history, music, culture. It gives a particularly humane and intelligent view of colonialism and its impact on indigenous peoples, in particular his assessment of Southern Africa's past and present day. It is a book anyone who is interested in gaining insight into the way a talented and intelligent contemporary artist like Kentridge produces work will love this book.
Author: Ann Rippin
Rating: 3
Review: Not the easiest book in the world to follow - although he was wonderfully clear on Radio 4 which is why I ordered the book. It helps if you have the film clips he refers to, I suspect.
