Author: Basualdo, Carlos (editor)
Title: William Kentridge: Tapestries
Description: Philadelphia/New Haven, CT, Philadelphia Museum of Art/Yale University Press, 2008. Hardcover. Color illustrated paper over boards; tan spine with black and red lettering. 115 (5) pp. Profusely illustrated with color plates and figures. Accompanied the exhibition of the same name held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art December 12, 2007 to April 6, 2008. Includes a foreword by Anne d'Harnoncourt, as well as essays by Carlos Basualdo, Gabriele Guercio, Okwui Enwezor, and Ivan Vladislavic. South African artist William Kentridge has produced an outstanding body of work in multiple mediums all of which trace the fraught political and cultural history of South Africa. This title explores Kentridge's new series of 17 large-scale tapestries, created under his artistic direction by a team of South African weavers. Includes bibliographical references. Wonderfully illustrated. VG+ .

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