The contemporary South African artist William Kentridge creates drawings, prints, sculptures, books, films, installations and performances. William Kentridge: Five Themes was a major exhibition that presented the artist’s work in five major series completed since the 1980s. For the exhibition catalogue, Abbott Miller collaborated with Kentridge to develop different strategies to present this remarkably diverse body of work. Miller developed the WK5 graphic as a way of pulling together the five series into an iconic oeuvre. Each section of the book opens with an image that layers the title of the section over source material from the artist. Kentridge is perhaps best known for his animated films—the artist calls them “drawings for projection”—and the book presents several of these films as progressions of individual frames or stills.

This outstanding monograph takes on the grit of the artist’s work with the integrity of a filmmaker. The integration of image and writing invites the reader to engage.