WILLIAM KENTRIDGE `PRINTS` FIRST EDITION, 2005

WILLIAM KENTRIDGE "PRINTS" FIRST EDITION, 2005

Although Kentridge is now well known for his films, drawings, and theatre productions, he began his artistic career learning etching at the Johannesburg Art Foundation under Bill Ainslie. He spent two years teaching printmaking at this Foundation and his earliest exhibitions featured his monotypes and etchings such as the Domestic Scenes series. "Prints" is the first book to focus specifically on Kentridge's formidable print oeuvre, filling a gap in published work on the artist to date. It is also the first major publication on Kentridge to be published in South Africa. The book includes over 180 works and presents the full range and complexity of Kentridge's printmaking, from his linocuts of the 1970s to his recent sophisticated and distinctive Thinking Aloud drypoints created while he was working on his production of Mozart's opera, The Magic Flute, which premiered in Brussels in 2005.

The publication of this book coincides with a travelling exhibition that opened at the Faulconer Gallery, Iowa in late 2004 and travels to other museums in the US in 2007.