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Item Number: 126247
Title: WILLIAM KENTRIDGE / NALINI MALANI : The Shadow play as medium of memory
Author: Huyssen, Andreas
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9788881588756
Description: Milano: Charta, 2013. 24cm., hardcover, 80pp., 32 oclor illus. Italian-English text. Exhibition catalogue. Summary: This exquisite comparative study of contemporary artists William Kentridge and Nalini Malani focuses on their use of the shadow play as a medium of memory. Independently of each other, both artists have deployed this centuries-old performative art form in works that some consider to be highpoints of their respective careers, including Kentridge’s installation The Refusal of Time and Malani’s video/shadow play In Search of Vanished Blood. Both artists belong to a generation whose experience is shaped by colonialism and de-colonization; their works reflect on the long-term traces of historical trauma, partition, and apartheid, always in aesthetically complex forms rather than in documentary or agit-prop style. In creative dialogue with modernism and the historical avant-garde, they provide persuasive examples of a new negotiation between aesthetics, ethics, and politics.
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