WORDS, a collation

111pp., 4to., illus., hardback, d.w., Calcutta, 2023

A selection of phrases and sentences taken from books William Kentridge has read over the years and copied into a studio notebook titled Words. He has often begun a project by paging through the notebook. The words come from many sources: Aimé Césaire, Yehuda Amichai, Sigmund Freud, James Joyce, Setswana proverbs, the Book of Ecclesiastes, Tristan Tzara’s Dada Manifesto, and a range of eastern European poets.

Designed by the artist.