William Kentridge is one of the world's most engaging contemporary artists renowned for
exploring the essence of humanity through both historical and everyday themes. This book
invites readers to "listen to the echo"-to engage with the resonance of Kentridge's
multidisciplinary practice. Spanning more than four decades it presents works ranging from his
early printmaking and drawings which laid the foundation for his animated film series
"Drawings for Projection " to recent installations confronting apartheid colonialism social
upheaval and collective memory. Major works such as the panoramic video installation More
Sweetly Play the Dance and the woodcut series "Triumphs and Laments" use the motif of the
procession as a powerful metaphor for change. The book also features The Centre for the Less
Good Idea a Johannesburg-based performance incubation space co-founded by Kentridge and
Bronwyn Lace which takes its impulse from Kentridge's experimental and open-ended approach to
making. With recent works like the three-channel film installation To Cross One More Sea and
new sculptures from the series "Paper Procession " this volume captures the breadth and depth
of Kentridge's practice-at once critical poetic personal and always profoundly
collaborative. Co-published with Museum Folkwang Essen and the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen
Dresden
