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table of contents
- 1. In Praise of Shadows
- 2. A Brief History of Colonial Revolts
- 3. Vertical Thinking: A Johannesburg Biography
- 4. Practical Epistemology: Life in the Studio
- 5. In Praise of Mistranslation
- 6. Anti-Entropy
THE CHARLES ELIOT NORTON LECTURES
Six Drawing Lessons
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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.
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William Kentridge, “Listening to the Image”
WATCH THE VIDEO OF THE LECTURE BELOW >>
Thursday, October 3
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
In celebration of the launch of the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society at the University of Chicago, internationally acclaimed South African artist William Kentridge delivered a public lecture to a full house at Mandel Hall on October 3, 2013. The lecture was a fitting tribute to the collaborative, interdisciplinary work of the Neubauer Collegium.
Mr. Kentridge spoke on the practice and theory of making meaning in the studio, through an exploration of the relationship of sound and image. The lecture focused on a current project, Schubert’s song cycle, "Winterreise", for which he is making films to be performed at the Vienna Festival next year.
Mr. Kentridge was joined by The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center music director and pianist Craig Terry and tenor John Irvin.
Opening Remarks were given by President Robert J. Zimmer and David Nirenberg, Roman Family Director of the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society.
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William Kentridge, Concerning Narrative (2013)
Watercolour, coloured pencil and computer printed texts on
Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 1933
William Kentridge, Concerning Narrative (2013)
Watercolour, coloured pencil and computer printed texts on
Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 1933
William Kentridge’s work has been seen in museums and galleries around the world since the 1990s, including Documenta in Kassel, Germany (1997, 2003, 2012), the Museum of Modern Art in New York (1998, 2010), the Albertina Museum in Vienna (2010), Jeu de Paume in Paris (2010). Kentridge’s production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute was presented at Theatre de la Monnaie in Brussels, Festival d’Aix, and in 2011 at La Scala in Milan. He directed Shostakovich’s The Nose for the Met Opera in New York in 2010 (the production traveled to Festival d’Aix and to Lyon in 2011), to coincide with a major exhibition at MoMA. Also in 2010 the Musee du Louvre in Paris presented Carnets d’Egypte, a project conceived especially for the Egyptian room at the Louvre. In the same year, Kentridge received the prestigious Kyoto Prize in recognition of his contributions in the field of arts and philosophy. In 2011, Kentridge was elected as an Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and received the degree of Doctor of Literature honoris causa from the University of London. In 2012, he presented the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard University; was elected member of the American Philosophical Society and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, was awarded the Dan David Prize by Tel Aviv University, and was named as Commandeur des Arts et Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication. In 2013, William Kentridge was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts by Yale University.
WILLIAM KENTRIDGE: LISTENING TO THE IMAGE
South African artist William Kentridge delivered the inaugural lecture of the Neubauer Family Collegium for Culture and Society at Mandel Hall on October 3, 2013.
Mr. Kentridge spoke on the practice and theory of making meaning in the studio, through an exploration of the relationship of sound and image. The lecture focused on a current project, Schubert's song cycle, "Winterreise". He was joined by The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center music director and pianist Craig Terry and tenor John Irvin.
Mr. Kentridge spoke on the practice and theory of making meaning in the studio, through an exploration of the relationship of sound and image. The lecture focused on a current project, Schubert's song cycle, "Winterreise". He was joined by The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center music director and pianist Craig Terry and tenor John Irvin.
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