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Accounts and Drawings from Underground William Kentridge

Accounts and Drawings from Underground By William Kentridge

Accounts and Drawings from Underground by William Kentridge


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With fifteen stunning new color drawings by Kentridge and an additional coda, this revised edition of Accounts and Drawings from Underground continues its remarkable documentation of the stories of migrant laborers and the flows of capital and desire, providing us with a palpable sense of a vanished world.

Accounts and Drawings from Underground Summary

Accounts and Drawings from Underground: The East Rand Proprietary Mines Cash Book by William Kentridge

In Accounts and Drawings from Underground, published in 2015, renowned artist William Kentridge and scholar Rosalind C. Morris brought us an unprecedented collaboration, taking pages of the 1906 Cash Book of the East Rand Proprietary Mines Corporation in South Africa and transforming them into something entirely new. While Kentridge contributed breathtaking landscape drawings in response to the transient terrain mining created, Morris plumbed the text of the cash book to generate a unique narrative account. Now, they revisit those ruined mines, with a visual and verbal addendum that provides an account of the ongoing metamorphosis of the world that gold mines created. Kentridge works on the threshold between the visible and the invisible, while Morris mines the unsaid in order to make it understandable. Together they've created a landmark book that chronicles the exploitation of African communities and sheds further light on global Black history. With fifteen stunning new color drawings by Kentridge and an additional coda, this revised edition of Accounts and Drawings from Underground continues its remarkable documentation of the stories of migrant laborers and the flows of capital and desire, providing us with a palpable sense of a vanished world.

About William Kentridge

William Kentridge is one of most prominent contemporary artists in the world, best known for his animated films based on charcoal drawings and his artistic work with books. Rosalind C. Morris is professor of anthropology at Columbia University. She is the author of Photographies East, In the Place of Origins, and New Worlds from Fragments.

Table of Contents

1. 'Drawings' by William Kentridge 2. 'Accounts' by Rosalind C. Morris 3. 'Jonah and the whale at Blyvooreizicht' by Rosalind C. Morris 4. 'Coda: Half Life in Ruins' by Rosalind C. Morris

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GOR011994084
9780857428523
0857428527
Accounts and Drawings from Underground: The East Rand Proprietary Mines Cash Book by William Kentridge
Used - Like New
Hardback
Seagull Books London Ltd
2021-03-16
224
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The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

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