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"...a persuasive new monograph..." * New York Review of Books *
"...presents a formidable argument for Kentridge’s realignment in relation to global culture, providing us with an exhilarating image of what it means to be ‘contemporary up south’, and a more nuanced understanding of Kentridge’s unique body of work." * Burlington Contemporary *
"By examining the centrality of metaphor to Kentridge’s creative processes, Maltz-Leca weaves a dense tapestry in which individual works from throughout his oeuvre are explicated in terms of the complex ways in which they relate to history, South African history in particular." * H-Net *

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
On the Southern Tip of Africa

1 The Politics of Metaphor
Erasing
2 History as Process, or Chasing Hegel out of Africa
Animating
3 Process/Procession
Processing Regime Change
4 Thinking/Doubting/Doubling
Drawing (Up)
5 The Most Promiscuous of Metaphors
Projecting
Being Contemporary Up South
World Time and Other Doubtful Enterprises

Notes
List of Illustrations
Index

William Kentridge

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      Publisher University of California Press
      Published 26 January 2018
      ISBN-13 9780520290556
      978-0520290556
      ISBN-10 0520290550
      Also in:
      Individual artists, art monographs The arts: general topics Theory of art

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      "...a persuasive new monograph..." * New York Review of Books *
      "...presents a formidable argument for Kentridge’s realignment in relation to global culture, providing us with an exhilarating image of what it means to be ‘contemporary up south’, and a more nuanced understanding of Kentridge’s unique body of work." * Burlington Contemporary *
      "By examining the centrality of metaphor to Kentridge’s creative processes, Maltz-Leca weaves a dense tapestry in which individual works from throughout his oeuvre are explicated in terms of the complex ways in which they relate to history, South African history in particular." * H-Net *

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments
      On the Southern Tip of Africa

      1 The Politics of Metaphor
      Erasing
      2 History as Process, or Chasing Hegel out of Africa
      Animating
      3 Process/Procession
      Processing Regime Change
      4 Thinking/Doubting/Doubling
      Drawing (Up)
      5 The Most Promiscuous of Metaphors
      Projecting
      Being Contemporary Up South
      World Time and Other Doubtful Enterprises

      Notes
      List of Illustrations
      Index

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