Six Drawing Lessons (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, 2012)

William Kentridge

ISBN 10: 0674365801 / ISBN 13: 9780674365803

Verlag: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 2014

Beschreibung

cloth/natural linen, hardcover in clear printed acetate dust jacket, as issued., harvard university press promotional sheet laid-in., dj has a little of that rubbing common to such material, though it is of negligible impact. clean. no markings. no bumps, tears, creases. tight binding. ; english text.; 208pp., illustrated in color, b/w. the artist's lectures on art and art making. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 24545

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Six Drawing Lessons (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, 2012)
• Verlag: Harvard University Press, Cambridge
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0674365801
• ISBN-13: 9780674365803
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: First Edition /First Printing.
• Zustand: Fine
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine Plus

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

William Kentridge is an artist who lives and works in Johannesburg.