Drawing Lesson. In Praise of Shadows. One
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This lecture opens with an excerpt from William Kentridge's animated film Shadow Procession, which "immediately calls to mind various historical displacements, exiles, and genocides, even as it avoids pinning the work to any specific time or place," says Harvard Magazine. From that point on, Kentridge's first of six "drawing lessons" travels from Plato's allegory of the cave, to illusion in art, to philosophical tyranny to make the point that knowledge is in actuality subjective and that the proper place to live lies somewhere between Plato's passive shadow-watcher and the absolutist philosopher.
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63 min
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[2013], c2012
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Films on Demand
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