Skira''s new series Milestones: At the Heart of Creation, dedicated to today''s greatest living artists, proudly presents this volume. Skira''s new series Milestones is a collection of books devoted to today''s greatest living artists. More than retrospectives, Milestones are comprehensive excursions into the daily life and work of exceptional living artists and provide a rare backstage glimpse at their art. Each volume of the series presents one or more intimate interviews with the artist by a curator or a fellow artist, an essay by a renowned author, and the artist''s biography. The iconography of the book includes images and plates of the key works explained by the artists themselves and an original photoshoot of the artist in his studio by leading photographers (such as Jabulani Dhlamini, David Michalek, Ruediger Glatz), as well as a ''family album'' with previously unpublished shots and personal photos. Born in Johannesburg in 1955, William Kentridge still lives and works there to this day. He is internationally renowned for the expressionism of his work in numerous media, among them charcoal, printmaking, sculpture and film, as well as his acclaimed theatrical and operatic productions. As elusive as it is allusive, Kentridge''s art is shaped by apartheid and grounded in the politics of the post-apartheid era, and in science, literature and history, while always maintaining space for contradiction and uncertainty.

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Denise Wendel-Poray is a Canadian writer, editor and curator. She is the author of books and essays concerning the relationship between art, theatre and music.

Stephen Clingman is distinguished University Professor of English and former Director of the Interdisciplinary Studies Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Julian Barnes is an internationally acclaimed English writer, winner of the Man Booker Prize in 2011.

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A new title of Skira's new series Milestones: At the Heart of Creation, dedicated to today's greatest living artists.

Skira's new series Milestones is a collection of books devoted to today's greatest living artists. More than retrospectives, Milestones are comprehensive excursions into the daily life and work of exceptional living artists and provide a rare backstage glimpse at their art. Each volume of the series presents one or more intimate interviews with the artist by a curator or a fellow artist, an essay by a renowned author, and the artist's biography. The iconography of the book includes images and plates of the key works explained by the artists themselves and an original photoshoot of the artist in his studio by leading photographers, as well as a "family album" with previously unpublished shots and personal photos.

Born in Johannesburg in 1955, William Kentridge is internationally renowned for the expressionism of his work in numerous media (charcoal, printmaking, sculpture and film), as well as his acclaimed theatrical and operatic productions. As elusive as it is allusive, Kentridge's art is shaped by apartheid and grounded in the politics of the post-apartheid era, and in science, literature and history.