Six Drawing Lessons (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
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| Rating | : | 4.44 (851 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0674365801 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-16 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
. William Kentridge is an artist who lives and works in Johannesburg
Murrayhill said Profound and moving testament to art-making in our time.. Based on this South African artist's extraordinary Norton Lectures, these essays give an astonishing glimpse into Kentridge's work as well as into the process of art-making more generally.. "Delivered as promised, no complaints. The book itself" according to allen d. Delivered as promised, no complaints. The book itself is long on his inner musings, sometimes found myself slogging through it, but still, interesting. He's a master animator and artist, no question.. Charles said Highly Recommend. Simply one of the great artists working today. Old school, New school. Thank You WK.
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. 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
The production of this book was handled as a work of art too. The size, proportion, binding, and attention to detail are superb. The design by Dean Bornstein harmonizes perfectly with the tone of the book. He also elaborates upon life in the art studio (a ‘safe space for stupidity’)Timeincluding how it affects work in the studioand memory are also major themes. This is an enlightening, circuitous, and self-reflexive performance that delves into Kentridge’s greatest obsessions in the realms of art, politics, history, and image-making… Kentridge discusses topics including Plato’s cave allegory (a subject that looms over much, if not all, of the book), Africa’s colonies, and the violence of the Enlightenment.