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James Siena provides an introductory essay on typewriters not typewriter poetry although he states he might take it up in the future. He is a collector of antique typewriters with over 100 in his collection. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents With a searing body of work ranging from films and drawings to print, sculptures, and theatrical productions, William Kentridge has offered a fresh and distinctive perspective on the contemporary social landscape, with a particular emphasis on his native South Africa. His practice of the past two decades is based on his intensive exploration of themes that are evocative of his own life experience as well as the political issues that most concern him. Produced in close collaboration with the artist, this catalogue investigates the five primary themes that have engaged Kentridge over the course of his influencial career: 1. Parcours d'Atelier: Artist in the Studio 2.Thick Time: Soho and Felix 3.Occasional and Residual Hope: Ubu and the Procession 4.Sarastro and the Master's Voice: The Magic Flute 5.Learning from the Absurd: The Nose Rich in content and illustrations, the publication bears witness to an artist wrestling with each theme and experimenting with formally innovative ways...

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Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev contributes an in depth interview with the artist. Dan Cameron's essay is titled "A Procession of the Dispossed." J.M. Coetzee focuses o "History of the Main Complaint." Also included are writings by the artist and a chronologyand bibliography. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The inner flap of the dust jacket reads, "William Kentridge's drawing-based works, encompassing animated films, theatre and opera productions, present a uniquely evocative, emblematic view of the state of South Africa today...from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings to traces of apartheid's violence in the landscape around Johannesburg. Kentridge's animated films are patiently built up from series of single drawings, incorporating erasure as well as the addition of lines and forms; a week's drawing can give rise to just forty seconds of animation. Socio-political traumas such as apartheid are narrated through his haunting imagery." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition was co-curated by Alma on Dobbin (N.Y.) and Laura Kruger. The exhibition was done in tribute to 600,000 Hungarian Jews who perished in the Holocaust. Waldsee was a deception by the Nazis as a ficticious place from where postcards of lies describing their happiness as dictated by the Nazis were sent to other Jews but in reality were written before being killed in the gas chambers of Auschwitz. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.