Known internationally for his drawings, animated films, sculptures, installations, and stage work, Kentridge explores the history and post-apartheid political transformations of his native South Africa. Through his films -- made by a process of constant modifications via erasures to charcoal drawi
Marjorie Perloff is a poetry critic and professor emerita of English and Comparative Literature at Stanford University. Her work has been especially concerned with explicating the writing of experimental and avant-garde poets and relating it to the major currents of modernist and, especially, postmod
Dieter Appelt Dieter Appelt has been a Professor of Photography, Film and Video at the Hochschule der Kunst in Berlin since 1982. He studied photography at the Academy of Fine Art in Berlin as well as music at Leipzig and Berlin Music Academies.
Appelt's work of the late 70's & 80's was typically
Andreas Gursky's hyper-real images take photography just about as far from the narrative tradition as is possible without entering abstraction. Although his pictures are devoid of romance -- what you see is what you get -- and he employs a camera with a large depth of focus, rendering even the most r