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Thirty Notebooks
(History on One Leg)

Item date(s): 21/12/2024-17/04/2025

William Kentridge
Lunetta Bartz - (solander boxes by)
Sam Nyalungu - (solander boxes by)
Jessica Jones - (coordinated by)
Anne McIlleron - (coordinated by)

Medium: Facsimile copies
Pages: unpaged
Size: 335mm
Collation: See: Additional notes
Binding: Two solander boxes by MAKER, Johannesburg
Technique: Digital printing on Arena Ivory paper
Language: English
Inscription: Signed on the colophon by the artist
Edition: HC1/1. (Hors Commerce) See notes

Sub-type: Sketchbook

Place publication: Johannesburg
Publisher: Pulp Paperworks

Additional notes:
1. [No title]

2. I AM NOT ME

3. WORDS. MARCH 2014 / 2016/ 2018

4. Peripheral Thinking Lecture. William’s. Feb 2015

5. Head & the Load. H+L. Dec 2016 – Jan 2017

6. IF THE GOOD DOCTOR. . . A Defence of the Less Good Idea. May 2017. March 2017

7. MADRID. Oct 2017. ENOUGH & MORE THAN ENOUGH. LECTURE 2016

8. Constable. 2018

9. URSONATE

10. AND THIS YOU SAY. APRIL 2020

11. Houseboy. WK. October 2019

12. THIS, YOU SAY, IS MY LIFE. 4/2020. April 2020. DIARY

13. Mayakovsky A Tragegy.

14. Mayakovsky, Shostakovitch. [Book 1]. June / July 2020 + March 2022

15. Mayakovsky, Shostakovitch. Book 2. July 2020

16. Mayakovsky, Shostakovitch. Book 3. March/April 2022

17. EPISODIC LANDSCAPE AND OLD MASTERS. CITY DEEP. JULY 2020

18. Studio Life, Episode 5. Translations. Nov 2020

19. STUDIO L IFE Episode 7; COLONIALISM. April 2021

20. Fasting Showman. Manifestos

21. Slae #4. August 2021

22. Oct 2021. The GREAT YES; The GREAT NO

23. #9. Texts. Dec 2021; Jan 2022

24. Words 2020 & Words the GREAT YES, the GRAT NO 2022

25. The Great YES; The Great NO. Feb 2023

26. Words

27. Slade Lectures. 2022x4. William Kentridge

28. January 2024

29. Fugitive Words. 2024

30. Notebook of Notebooks. History on One Leg.

Reference note:
Consisting of 30 studio notebooks prepared for "History on One Leg", an exhibition at A4 Arts Foundation in Cape Town, presenting a selection of William Kentridge's studio notebooks made over the past fifteen years. The original notebooks were reproduced for this presentation.

Each of the 30 notebooks is stamped William Kentridge in blue and marked HC in red pencil.

Printed by Pulp Paperworks, Johannesburg, on Arena Ivory 70 gsm.

Dates reflect the exhibition at A4 Arts Foundation, Cape Town.

Facsimile copies of original studio notebooks and collage.

Edition on separate colophon:

5 Numbered sets of 30 books: 1/5 to 5/5.

2 Artist's Proofs: AP I/II and AP II/II

1 Exhibition copy: EC I/I

1 Hors Commerce copy: HC I/I

Exhibition notes:
Thoughtforms: The Page as a Liminal Field. JBCBA, WAM. Curated by Ciara Struwig. 24 March – 5 June 2026

Ref: SA/2731

book #10 AND THIS YOU SAY. APRIL 2020	book #2 I AM NOT ME
book #4 Peripheral Thinking Lecture. Williamâ€™s. Feb 2015	book #6 IF THE GOOD DOCTOR. . . A Defence of the Less Good Idea. May 2017. March 2017
book #9 URSONATE