Anatomie van het atelier - William Kentridge

In Anatomie van het atelier, the world-renowned South African artist William Kentridge speaks with great passion about his way of working. It begins with creative procrastination: drinking tea, tidying up, and making a list of the lesser good ideas. Sometimes, after many rounds around the worktable, something arises that is worth pursuing further. That is how the spectacular works begin, such as the moving shadow processions in, among other places, Amsterdam, Rome, Cape Town and New York.

Just as engagingly, Kentridge describes his family background. How his grandfather came from Latvia to Johannesburg as Chain Kantorovich, and his father, as a judge, opposed apartheid. How William made his first attempts to connect art and politics in an imaginative way, and how this eventually led to his studio in Johannesburg with more than twenty staff members. Anatomie van het atelier is not only a must-read for admirers of his art, but also a unique book about the creative process and the role of the artist.

Please note: this book is written in Dutch.