This is an extraordinarily intrepid and lucid book. The fit between Taylor and Kentridge is so invigorating it may as well be unprecedented. Rarely has a major living artist found so engaged and lively a commentator.
Garrett Stewart, author of Closed Circuits: Screening Narrative Surveillance The dialectical relationship between parts of the self drives Taylor's project in content and ... Read moreform, and the style of writing itself performs the main thrust of the argument. By deliberately employing her writing to mirror Kentridge's mode of working, Taylor creates not only an insightful critical study of Kentridge's creative process, but a sophisticated piece of performative writing as well. . . .This book sets a precedent for how theatre scholarship can engage with its object as an artistic collaboration, where text performs how art is made.
Theatre Journal A great addition to the recent literature that has come out on Kentridge.
CAA Reviews Brave, inventive, and intellectually exciting, William Kentridge not only reveals the playfulness and rigor of Kentridge's aesthetic processes but manages the rare feat of capturing a certain spirit
one that is normally graspable only when one views a work of art itself or watches a live performance.
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