Visual Art Feb 26, 2009 at 4:00 am

William Kentridge Takes Over Seattle, Kind Of

And he is sorry.

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1
Thanks so much for writing this-- I saw "History of the Main Complaint" at the MCA in Chicago (one of the illustrated movies) and it was fantastic.
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Kentridge's stereoscope piece Etant Donnes gives a nod to Duchamp, but it is clearly a reference to Durer's "Artist drawing a Reclining Woman" done in 1538, a pivotal piece in the study of perspective. Kentridge's pose of the artist looking through a window grid between the legs of the woman whom he is drawing on a grided paper (in Durer's engraving she has a bit of cloth there) is identical to the 16th century work.

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