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DelMonico Books/The Broad

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The Broad, 11/12/22–04/01/23

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William Kentridge: In Praise of Shadows

Edited with text by Ed Schad. Foreword by Joanne Heyler. Contributions by William Kentridge, Ann McCoy, Zakes Mda, Walter Murch.

William Kentridge: In Praise of Shadows

Thirty-five years of South African artist William Kentridge’s dynamic, cross-genre art, with essays by Ann McCoy, Zakes Mda, and Ed Schad, a conversation between the artist and Walter Murch, and an unpublished lecture by Kentridge.

This far-reaching book presents Kentridge’s dynamic art practice, which originates in charcoal drawing and expands into intersections with film, sculpture, opera and theater performances, printmaking and many other mediums. The volume is organized chronologically and thematically, emphasizing Kentridge’s destabilizing of South African and global narratives through openness to uncertainty, the generative power of the artist’s studio and perpetual change, all as conditions for illuminating repressed and silenced voices in historical records.
An essay by curator Ed Schad is presented along with studio photography, archival material and illuminating illustrations of Kentridge’s work, joining essays by globally recognized literary figures and thinkers Zakes Mda and Ann McCoy. Notably, the volume features a conversation between Kentridge and the famous film and sound editor Walter Murch, as well as a never-before-published lecture by the artist.
The work of William Kentridge (born 1955) has been seen in museums and galleries around the world since the 1990s, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Albertina Museum in Vienna, Musée du Louvre in Paris, Whitechapel Gallery in London, Louisiana Museum in Copenhagen, the Reina Sofia museum in Madrid, the Kunstmuseum in Basel and Zeitz MOCAA and the Norval Foundation in Cape Town. Opera productions include Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Shostakovich’s The Nose and Alban Berg’s operas Lulu and Wozzeck. In 2016 Kentridge founded the Centre for Less Good Idea in Johannesburg, a space for responsive thinking and making through experimental, collaborative and cross-disciplinary art practices. The center hosts an ongoing program of workshops, public performances and mentorship activities.


PRAISE AND REVIEWS

New York Times: T Magazine

Anna Furman

Under Kentridge’s hand, historical maps, as well as pages from the Oxford English Dictionary and former mining company ledgers, transform into politically charged examinations of colonial power. 

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Aruna D'Souza

Perhaps this is exactly the work that white and white-adjacent America needs to see, over and over again, until it finally makes the connections between its present and a past that it too often refuses to claim as its own.

Art New England

Jack Curtis

Few artists can match the passion and mastery, the productivity and inventiveness of Kentridge, the grand blur-er of genres.

New York Review of Books

Susan Tallman

Serves as a generous introduction to Kentridge’s work and its concerns.

New York Review of Books

Susan Tallman

Serves as a generous introduction to Kentridge’s work and its concerns.

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WILLIAM KENTRIDGE MONOGRAPHS + ARTIST'S BOOKS

William Kentridge: Carlton Centre Games Arcade

WILLIAM KENTRIDGE: CARLTON CENTRE GAMES ARCADE

Steidl

ISBN: 9783969992449
USD $40.00
| CAD $58

Pub Date: 6/24/2025
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William Kentridge: Catalogue Raisonné Volume 1

WILLIAM KENTRIDGE: CATALOGUE RAISONNé VOLUME 1

Steidl

ISBN: 9783969991435
USD $295.00
| CAD $413

Pub Date: 3/14/2023
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William Kentridge: In Praise of Shadows

WILLIAM KENTRIDGE: IN PRAISE OF SHADOWS

DelMonico Books/The Broad

ISBN: 9781636810669
USD $65.00
| CAD $89 UK £ 55

Pub Date: 12/20/2022
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William Kentridge

WILLIAM KENTRIDGE

Royal Academy of Arts

ISBN: 9781912520732
USD $45.00
| CAD $63

Pub Date: 11/22/2022
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William Kentridge: Domestic Scenes

WILLIAM KENTRIDGE: DOMESTIC SCENES

Steidl

ISBN: 9783969990421
USD $58.00
| CAD $80

Pub Date: 3/15/2022
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William Kentridge: A Poem That Is Not Our Own

WILLIAM KENTRIDGE: A POEM THAT IS NOT OUR OWN

Walther König, Köln

ISBN: 9783960986256
USD $55.00
| CAD $75

Pub Date: 10/8/2019
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William Kentridge: Why Should I Hesitate

WILLIAM KENTRIDGE: WHY SHOULD I HESITATE

Walther König, Köln

ISBN: 9783960987147
USD $250.00
| CAD $350

Pub Date: 12/15/2020
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William Kentridge: O Sentimental Machine

WILLIAM KENTRIDGE: O SENTIMENTAL MACHINE

Kerber

ISBN: 9783735604491
USD $65.00
| CAD $87

Pub Date: 8/28/2018
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William Kentridge: Triumphs and Laments

WILLIAM KENTRIDGE: TRIUMPHS AND LAMENTS

Walther König, Köln

ISBN: 9783960981817
USD $50.00
| CAD $67.5

Pub Date: 6/19/2018
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William Kentridge: No It Is

WILLIAM KENTRIDGE: NO IT IS

Walther König, Köln

ISBN: 9783863359508
USD $29.95
| CAD $39.95

Pub Date: 9/27/2016
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William Kentridge: Notes Towards a Model Opera

WILLIAM KENTRIDGE: NOTES TOWARDS A MODEL OPERA

UCCA/Koenig Books/Marta and Cosentino

ISBN: 9780996215602
USD $30.00
| CAD $40

Pub Date: 3/28/2017
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William Kentridge: The Refusal of Time

WILLIAM KENTRIDGE: THE REFUSAL OF TIME

Editions Xavier Barral

ISBN: 9782365110075
USD $125.00
| CAD $170

Pub Date: 2/28/2013
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