Publisher: Koenig Books

Publication Date: 2015

Binding: Hardcover, 267 pages

Language: English

ISBN: 9780996215602

From 2015.6.27 - 2015.8.30, UCCA presents a comprehensive retrospective of William Kentridge, including works from nearly every major project the artist has undertaken from 1988 to the present.The exhibition was accompanied by an English catalogue of the same title. The book contains essays by Andrew Solomon, Professor of Clinical Psychology at Columbia University; sinologist and renowned historian of Chinese visual culture Alfreda Murck; and UCCA Director Philip Tinari. At the core of the catalogue is a text by Kentridge himself entitled “Peripheral Thinking,” a reproduction of the artist's notebook for a lecture on this project and his engagement with China. The text follows in the tradition of the theatrical lectures best exemplified by his 2012 Norton Lectures at Harvard, whose associated publication Six Drawing Lessons also debuted in Chinese in conjunction with the UCCA exhibition.