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Six drawing lessons

by William Kentridge

Based on the 2012 Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, this collection explores the studio as a site for generating knowledge. The text examines drawing as a material process and its relationship to historical, social, and philosophical themes.

Accession 17188 ISBN 9780674365803 Publisher Harvard University Press
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