Accounts and Drawings from Underground: The East Rand Proprietary Mines Cash Book (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780857428523)

In Accounts and Drawings from Underground, published in 2015, renowned artist William Kentridge and scholar Rosalind C. Morris brought us an unprecedented collaboration, taking pages of the 1906 Cash Book of the East Rand Proprietary Mines Corporation in South Africa and transforming them into something entirely new. While Kentridge contributed breathtaking landscape drawings in response to the transient terrain mining created, Morris plumbed the text of the cash book to generate a unique narrative account.

Now, they revisit those ruined mines, with a visual and verbal addendum that provides an account of the ongoing metamorphosis of the world that gold mines created. Kentridge works on the threshold between the visible and the invisible, while Morris mines the unsaid in order to make it understandable. Together they've created a landmark book that chronicles the exploitation of African communities and sheds further light on global Black history. With fifteen stunning new color drawings by Kentridge and an additional coda, this revised edition of Accounts and Drawings from Underground continues its remarkable documentation of the stories of migrant laborers and the flows of capital and desire, providing us with a palpable sense of a vanished world.


Author: William Kentridge, Rosalind C. Morris
ISBN-10: 0857428527
ISBN-13: 9780857428523
Publisher: Seagull Books
Language: English
Published: 12/20/2021
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 3.25lbs
Size: 13.10h x 9.60w x 1.10d

About the Author
William Kentridge is one of most prominent contemporary artists in the world, best known for his animated films based on charcoal drawings and his artistic work with books. Rosalind C. Morris is professor of anthropology at Columbia University. She is the author of Photographies East, In the Place of Origins, and New Worlds from Fragments.