To accompany William Kentridge\'s (born 1955) Notes Towards a Model Opera project in China, the artist\'s personal notebooks--filled with annotations, drawings and ideas--were meticulously reproduced in this eponymous publication to allow the reader into Kentridge\'s own thought process.
With an in-depth profile of Kentridge by author Andrew Solomon, and essays by China art historian Alfreda Murck and UCCA director Philip Tinari, Notes Towards a Model Opera is a personal exploration of the layered meanings behind the aesthetics and ideals of socialist China as well as an exploration of the artist himself..
To accompany William Kentridge\'s (born 1955) Notes Towards a Model Opera project in China, the artist\'s personal notebooks--filled with annotations, drawings and ideas--were meticulously reproduced in this eponymous publication to allow the reader into Kentridge\'s own thought process
