An exploration of phrases and excerpts that inspire a major
contemporary artist. Â Over the past several years, renowned
South African artist William Kentridge has made a collection of
particular phrases and sentences that have called out to him from
the pages of whatever he has been reading. And these phrases, which
he has written into a studio notebook titled Words, have been put
to work in many of his artistic projects. Kentridge has often begun
a project by paging through the notebook, waiting for a phrase to
claim its place in the new work. The text excerpts come from many
sources: Aimé Césaire, Yehuda Amichai, Sigmund Freud, James
Joyce, Setswana proverbs, the Book of Ecclesiastes, Tristan
Tzara’s Dada Manifesto, and a range of eastern European poets.
This volume presents a selection made from the notebook, with
phrases arranged neither randomly nor with a clear agenda but
finding a space in between. Cleverly designed by the artist and
beautifully produced, Words is a thought-provoking collection that
provides a window to the mind of a contemporary creative genius.
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