书名：Six Drawing Lessons / 肯特里奇的六堂绘画课
定价：318.0
ISBN：9780674365803
作者：William Kentridge
版次：1
出版时间：2014-09

内容提要：
书名：Six Drawing Lessons / 六堂绘画课
作者：William Kentridge（威廉·肯特里奇）
出版社：Harvard University Press，2014年
装帧：精装，187页 
语种：英文
尺寸：约 15.2*22.9 cm（6 x 9 英寸）

ISBN：978-0-6743-6580-3

简介
威廉·肯特里奇是过去三十年间享誉国际的视觉艺术家，创作横跨素描、电影、雕塑、版画和戏剧等多个领域。他的图像以鲜明的黑白对比为特征，既反映了其故乡南非的现实，也如同富有暗示性的影子一般，指向某种更为本质的东西。
本书基于肯特里奇在2012年哈佛大学查尔斯·艾略特·诺顿讲座（Charles Eliot Norton Lectures）的内容整理而成，是了解其艺术思想最全面的合集。肯特里奇认为，艺术本身就是一种知识形式，它并非简单地补充现实世界，也不能纯粹用传统学术学科的理性术语来理解。工作室是创造意义的关键场所——在那里，线性思维被放弃，眼睛、手以及炭笔与纸张的物质过程本身成为创造力的指引。
全书包含六讲，分别为：“赞美阴影”（In praise of shadows）、“殖民起义简史”（A brief history of colonial revolts）、“垂直思维：约翰内斯堡传记”（Vertical thinking: a Johannesburg biography）、“实践认识论：工作室生活”（Practical epistemology: life in the studio）、“赞美误译”（In praise of mistranslation）、“反熵”（Anti-entropy）。讲座内容自由穿梭于柏拉图洞穴寓言、启蒙运动与殖民压迫的关系、艺术中对动物的描绘等广泛主题，本身就是对其“艺术如何创造知识”这一核心论点的生动图解。

Over the last three decades, the visual artist William Kentridge has garnered international acclaim for his work across media including drawing, film, sculpture, printmaking, and theater. Rendered in stark contrasts of black and white, his images reflect his native South Africa and, like endlessly suggestive shadows, point to something more elemental as well. Based on the 2012 Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, Six Drawing Lessons is the most comprehensive collection available of Kentridge's thoughts on art, art-making, and the studio. Art, Kentridge says, is its own form of knowledge. It does not simply supplement the real world, and it cannot be purely understood in the rational terms of traditional academic disciplines. The studio is the crucial location for the creation of meaning: the place where linear thinking is abandoned and the material processes of the eye, the hand, the charcoal and paper become themselves the guides of creativity. Drawing has the potential to educate us about the most complex issues of our time. This is the real meaning of "drawing lessons." Incorporating elements of graphic design and ranging freely from discussions of Plato's cave to the Enlightenment's role in colonial oppression to the depiction of animals in art, Six Drawing Lessons is an illustration in print of its own thesis of how art creates knowledge. Foregrounding the very processes by which we see, Kentridge makes us more aware of the mechanisms—and deceptions—through which we construct meaning in the world.