175pp., 4to., colour illus., hardback, d.w., Seagull Books, Calcutta, 2021

ISBN: 9780857428523

First published in 2015.

William Kentridge has drawn on the pages of the 1906 Cash Book of the East Rand Proprietary Mines Corporation, once one of the largest gold mining companies in South Africa. Anthropologist Rosalind Morris, who has researched the South African gold mines for many years, uses the cash book to generate a narrative account of the world of gold mining, drawing together stories of the migrant labourers and charting the flows of capital around the world.

This revised includes a visual and verbal addendum that provides "an account of the ongoing metamorphosis of the world that ERPM created." pg. 167

William Kentridge (b. 1955, Johannesburg) is internationally acclaimed for his drawings, films, theatre and opera productions.Opera productions include Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Shostakovich’s The Nose, and Alban Berg’s operas Lulu and Wozzeck. Theatrical productions include Refuse the Hour, Winterreise, Paper Music, The Head & the Load, Ursonate, Sibyl and The Great Yes, The Great No and in collaboration with the Handspring Puppet Company, Ubu & the Truth Commission, Faustus in Africa!, Il Ritorno d’Ulisse and Woyzeck on the Highveld. In 2016 Kentridge founded the Centre for Less Good Idea in Johannesburg: a space for responsive thinking and making through experimental, collaborative and cross-disciplinary arts practices. His awards and honours include honorary doctorates from several universities including Yale and University of London; the Kyoto Prize (2010); the Princesa de Asturias Award for the arts (2017); the Antonio Feltrinelli International Prize (2018); and the Praemium Imperiale award (2019). He presented the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard University in 2012, and has been an Honorary Academician of the Royal Academy in London since 2015.

Rosalind C. Morris is Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. He books include That Which Is Not Drawn (with William Kentridge, 2013), The Returns of Fetishism: Charles de Brosses and the afterlives of an idea (with Daniel Leonard, 2017), and ‘Can the Subaltern Speak?’ Essays on the history of an Idea (2010). She is the producer and director of the documentary film We are Zama Zama (2021, and the multimedia installation, The Zama Zama Project.

ACCOUNTS AND DRAWINGS FROM UNDERGROUND, East Rand Proprietary Mines Cash Book, 1906, revised edition, with additional drawings and text

: Kentridge (W.) & Morris (R.)

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