{"product_id":"doctrines-of-affection-taking-to-the-stage-william-kentridge","title":"Doctrines of Affection By William Kentridge","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eDoctrines of Affection. From Studio to Stage\u003c\/em\u003e By William Kentridge\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSize: 13.6 x 21.5cm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePagination: 160 pages, full colour pages, with numerous illustrations\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBinding: Paperback with flaps\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn extract from \u003cem\u003eDoctrines of Affection\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe productions and picnics of Glyndebourne were a fixture of my parents’ summers. My father bought a country house in Sussex to be close to the opera house. Now he is too frail to make the journey from London to Sussex. There is a bench in the garden with my mother’s name on it. In due course there will be a second bench. But they are present as the work of the opera proceeds. And if I place my eye close to the pilot light, I can almost persuade myself I see them there in the auditorium, watching as the audience gathers around them, waiting for the moment when the first note sounds.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout the book:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWilliam Kentridge, one of the leading artists working today, explores how his works came\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003einto being, from the first photograph he ever made, through studies in drama, posters for\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003etheatre plays and work in the film industry. In Doctrines of Affection he shows how intuitions, connections and objects migrate from a table-top model in his studio to opera houses and exhibition spaces, how to work with music and to connect this work with the outside world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKentridge celebrates the pleasures of the absurd and of self-deception, resisting the purely\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003erational. When certainties fail, he allows ambiguity and doubt to emerge, and “the less good idea” to flourish. With humour and generosity, he explores how he finds a visual language on a vast scale for well-known classical works from Mozart to Monteverdi thereby enhancing their expression of the human condition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout the author:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWilliam Kentridge (Johannesburg, 1955) is one of the most influential artists of our time,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewhose work spans drawing, film, sculpture, theatre, and opera, united by a fluid approach\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eacross media. At the core of his practice lies drawing, which he has described as a way of\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethinking in time—marked by erasure, movement, and revision. Growing up in Johannesburg during apartheid, in what he has called a ‘fractured society’, Kentridge’s work emerges from a condition of historical rupture and ethical unease. Rather than offering positions or solutions, it proceeds through uncertainty, contradiction, and provisional meaning, often articulated through irony and a dry, self-questioning humour.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Kentridge","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57112178426231,"sku":"147446","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/9558\/3465\/files\/William-Kentridge-Book_93793490-1d2a-418b-b599-17c16c5be8b6.jpg?v=1781003782","url":"https:\/\/www.glyndebourneshop.com\/products\/doctrines-of-affection-taking-to-the-stage-william-kentridge","provider":"Glyndebourne Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}