{"title":"Books by William Kentridge","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780674365803","title":"Six Drawing Lessons","description":"“A beautiful and necessary book...as brisk as it is insightful.”—Choice South Africa’s most celebrated artist on art, colonialism, and studio practice.   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.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56294259884405,"sku":"9780674365803","price":44.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780674365803_9cf923cf-413e-46de-ab53-1bdffb5a1e46.jpg?v=1786014744"},{"product_id":"9781803092171","title":"Words – A Collation","description":"An exploration of phrases and excerpts that inspire a major contemporary artist.      Over the past several years, renowned South African artist William Kentridge has made a collection of particular phrases and sentences that have called out to him from the pages of whatever he has been reading. And these phrases, which he has written into a studio notebook titled Words, have been put to work in many of his artistic projects. Kentridge has often begun a project by paging through the notebook, waiting for a phrase to claim its place in the new work. The text excerpts come from many sources: Aimé Césaire, Yehuda Amichai, Sigmund Freud, James Joyce, Setswana proverbs, the Book of Ecclesiastes, Tristan Tzara’s Dada Manifesto, and a range of eastern European poets. This volume presents a selection made from the notebook, with phrases arranged neither randomly nor with a clear agenda but finding a space in between. Cleverly designed by the artist and beautifully produced, Words is a thought-provoking collection that provides a window to the mind of a contemporary creative genius.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56307417710965,"sku":"9781803092171","price":25.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781803092171_9dc8d1f4-86e8-46bf-9140-fa4be22c6d5a.jpg?v=1786026583"},{"product_id":"9781911282709","title":"Constable's White Horse","description":"The White Horse (1819) by John Constable (1776–1837) depicts a tow-horse being ferried across the river Stour in Suffolk, just below Flatford Lock at a point where the tow-path switched banks. Constable, who described the scene as \"as placid representation of a serene, grey morning, summer,\" went on in later years to comment: \"There are generally in the life of an artist perhaps one, two or three pictures, on which hang more than usual interest-- this is mine.\" A scholarly essay by Frick curator Aimee Ng, is paired with a piece by artist William Kentridge, who writes about finding inspiration in Constable's nostalgic world. The painting was well received when it was shown at the Royal Academy exhibition of 1819, and it was purchased by Constable's friend Archdeacon John Fisher. Constable bought back the painting in 1829 and kept it the rest of his life.There is a full-scale oil sketch for The White Horse in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56309026193781,"sku":"9781911282709","price":19.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781911282709_ea311e04-3ae5-4834-aa28-5e5320513f72.jpg?v=1786029324"},{"product_id":"a-natural-history-of-the-studio","title":"A Natural History of the Studio","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor more than three decades, South African artist William Kentridge has created a vast body of work comprising drawings and multimedia installations that have been exhibited worldwide.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere he immerses us in the artistic, intellectual and production processes of his creations, providing philosophical, autobiographical, technical and practical commentary and giving intimate insight into the studios where he has created throughout his life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Natural History of the Studio\u003c\/i\u003e is not only a must-read for admirers of Kentridge's work, but also a vibrant personal and philosophical exploration of the creative process and a critical look at the world and the human condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57487719399797,"sku":"9781804711255","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781804711255.jpg?v=1786354946"},{"product_id":"catalogue-raisonne-volume-2","title":"William Kentridge: Catalogue Raisonne Volume 2","description":null,"brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57510195036533,"sku":"9783969995150","price":250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9783969995150.jpg?v=1787130528"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-william-kentridge.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}