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597 William Joseph KENTRIDGE south african 1 955- Art in a State of Hope executed in 1988 signed and numbered 4/13 in pencil in the margin silkscreen on Vélin d’Arches Crème image size:163 by 106cm R150 000–200 000 exhibited South African National Gallery, Contemporary South African Art 1985-1995 from the South African National Gallery Permanent Collection , 14 December 1996 to 31 March 1997, page 124 in the catalogue. Iziko South African National Galley, Ink, Paper, Politics: The Agency of Print as Social Critique, Graphic works from the Iziko South African National Gallery Permanent Collection , 18 November 2014 to 10 February 2015. literature Bronwyn Law-Viljoen (ed.) (2006) William Kentridge Prints , Johannesburg: David Krut Publishing. Page 34 and illustrated in colour on page 35. The second position was ‘art in a state of hope’, by which I referred to a kind of agitprop work I had been doing, in which the work was subordinate to a program known in advance; a Leninist approach to picture-making. Rosalind Krauss (2013) A Universal Archive: William Kentridge as Printmaker , London: Hayward Publishing. Illustrated in colour on page 34. Dan Cameron (1999) William Kentridge , London: Phaidon Press. Pages 102-103 and illustrated in colour on page 103. Artist’s Writings: Art in a state of hope Tatlin’s Monument to the Third International (1919-20) is one of the greatest images of hope I know. I say image because although the monument existed as a model I know it only through photographs. These are enough. It is the project rather than the actual object that is moving. I imagine that the greying concrete 597 252