Accounts and Drawings from Underground – The East Rand Proprietary Mines Cash Book, 1906 (The Africa List) - Hardcover

Kentridge, William; Morris, Rosalind

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0857422057 ISBN 13: 9780857422057

Publisher: Seagull Books, 2015

Synopsis

Over the last twenty years, William Kentridge has built a world-wide reputation as a contemporary artist, best known for his series of ten animated films created from charcoal drawings. The films introduced a significant character in contemporary fiction: Soho Eckstein, a Highveld mining magnate and Kentridge's alter ego. In The Soho Chronicles, Kentridge's brother, Matthew, shares a never-before-seen perspective on both William and Soho that sheds new light on the creator and his alter ego. Richly illustrated, the book includes a special feature that connects with smartphones and tablets. In Accounts and Drawings from Underground, William Kentridge and Rosalind C. Morris bring us an unprecedented collaboration using the pages of the 1906 Cash Book of the East Rand Proprietary Mines Corporation. Kentridge contributes forty landscape drawings in response to the transient terrain mining, while Morris plumbs the text of the cash book to generate a unique narrative account, drawing together the stories of migrant laborers and charting the flows of capital and desire.

About this title

About the Author:

Matthew Kentridge lives in London and is a principal with Capgemini UK. William Kentridge is a prominent contemporary artist. Rosalind C. Morris is professor of anthropology at Columbia University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Seagull Books
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0857422057
• ISBN 13: 9780857422057
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 196