New Arrival at DKP Books: William Kentridge Domestic Scenes.

David Krut Bookstore has just acquired the newly released book about artist William Kentridge titled Domestic Scenes that feature the entire 54 images of Kentridge’s early series of work Domestic Scenes (1980). Domestic Scenes is published by Steidl, an international publisher of photobooks, and features an exquisite hard cover design with Kentridge’s signature on the cover page and a beautiful A1 poster of a photograph of young William Kentridge in his Parktown studio in Johannesburg, South Africa.

There are 16 variations of the book available, each distinct with a different front cover image of one of the works in the Domestic Scenes series. Clients are welcomed and encouraged to ask for the front cover variation that they would like. Each book is sold individually for R900.

Publisher Steidl writes on their website the following about Domestic Scenes “One of today’s most respected contemporary artists, Kentridge was only 25 years old and relatively unknown when he made these images which are pivotal in how they shaped his thinking, studio practice and conceptual approach. Presenting a range of human interactions in domestic environments and revealing influences from Matisse to Francis Bacon, from Giacomo Balla to Niki de Saint Phalle, the prints receive in this book fascinating new commentary from Kentridge, who shares his working methods as well as personal memories of the prints’ subjects and creation.”

Domestic Scenes is written by researcher and writer Warren Siebrits and aptly captures the beginning and evolution of Kentridge’s artistic method of stalking the drawing for long periods of time. As huge Kentridge fans ourselves, we can confidently say that this book is not one to miss if you admire the artist’s work and methods!

We hope to see you soon in our bookstore, choosing your own copy of this treasure of a book.

Images are extracted from the publishers website.