William Kentridge : Tapestries

NB This is a new and unread copy but has received some minor wear during shipping. Both top and bottom spine corners have a very slight bump, please see pics 2 and 3. Otherwise in excellent and clean condition. 

South African artist William Kentridge (b. 1955) has produced an outstanding body of work in multiple mediums - drawings, animations, sculptures, theatre and stage design - all of which trace the fraught political and cultural history of South Africa.

This book is the first to explore Kentridge's exciting new series of seventeen large-scale tapestries, created under his artistic direction by a team of South African weavers between 2001 and 2007. The tapestries depict shadowy figures that derive from his collages of itinerant characters set against the web-like backgrounds of 19th-century maps of Europe and Johannesburg.

120 pages, hardcover, numerous colour and b/w illustrations.