Description
Book SynopsisTrade 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 ContentsAcknowledgments
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
