To accompany William Kentridge's (born 1955) Notes Towards a Model Opera project in China, the artist's personal notebooks-filled with annotations, drawings and ideas-were meticulously reproduced in this eponymous publication to allow the reader into Kentridge's own thought process. With an in-depth profile of Kentridge by author Andrew Solomon, and essays by China art historian Alfreda Murck and UCCA director Philip Tinari, Notes Towards a Model Opera is a personal exploration of the layered meanings behind the aesthetics and ideals of socialist China as well as an exploration of the artist himself. | William Kentridge: Notes Towards a Model Opera by Karen Marta, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters