Research Catalog

Title

William Kentridge : smoke, ashes, fable / edited by Margaret K. Koerner ; with contributions by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Joseph Leo Koerner, Margaret K. Koerner and Harmon Siegel.

Author

Kentridge, William, 1955-

Publication

• Brussels : Mercatorfonds, [2017]
• New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press
• ©2017

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Details

Additional Authors

• Koerner, Margaret Koster
• Buchloh, B. H. D.
• Koerner, Joseph Leo
• Siegel, Harmon
• Hôpital Saint Jean (Bruges, Belgium), host institution.

Description

xiv, 217 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 31 cm

Summary

The well-known South African artist William Kentridge (b. 1955) has become famous for his time-lapse animation movies and installations, as well as his activities as an opera and theater director. This book offers a unique selection of Kentridge's work curated for Sint-Janshospitaal in Bruges-- at 800 years one of Europe's oldest surviving hospital buildings-- organized around the themes of trauma and healing. The book features an introduction by Margaret K. Koerner, and also includes essays by diverse distinguished contributors: Benjamin Buchloh considers Kentridge's alternate reception of the historical avant-garde from a perspective of exile; Joseph Leo Koerner explores the artist's work as a self-styled process of working in which the past simultaneously disfigures and redeems; and Harmon Siegel examines Kentridge's approach to film history.

Alternative Title

Smoke, ashes, fable

Subject

• Kentridge, William, 1955- > Exhibitions
• Kentridge, William, 1955-
• 1900-2099
• Art, South African > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Art, South African > 21st century > Exhibitions
• Art, South African

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• This publication was published on the occasion of the exhibition "William Kentridge: smoke ashes, fable" at the Sint-Janshospitaal, Bruges, Belgium from 21 October 2017 to 25 February 2018.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction -- Being Kentridge / Margaret K. Koerner -- Tummelplatz / Joseph Leo Koerner -- Feats of prestidigitation / Harmon Siegel -- Seven types of obsolescence / Bejamin H.D. Buchloh.

Call Number

JQG 18-149

ISBN

• 9789462301924
• 9462301921
• 9780300230253
• 0300230257

LCCN

2017953110

OCLC

1013833417

Author

Kentridge, William, 1955- artist.

Title

William Kentridge : smoke, ashes, fable / edited by Margaret K. Koerner ; with contributions by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Joseph Leo Koerner, Margaret K. Koerner and Harmon Siegel.

Publisher

Brussels : Mercatorfonds, [2017]

Distributor

New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Creator/Contributor Characteristics

South Africans

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Chronological Term

1900-2099

Added Author

Koerner, Margaret Koster, editor, contributor, curator.

Buchloh, B. H. D., contributor.

Koerner, Joseph Leo, contributor.

Siegel, Harmon, contributor.

Hôpital Saint Jean (Bruges, Belgium), host institution.

Research Call Number

JQG 18-149