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Item Number: 117365
Title: WILLIAM KENTRIDGE & Gerhard Marx : Fire Walker
Author: Barstow, Oliver (et al)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780986985027
Description: Johannesburg: Fourthwall Books, 2012. 31cm., pbk., slipcase, 123pp., 123 color illus. Publisher's summary: In 2009, William Kentridge and Gerhard Marx were commissioned to make a public sculpture for the city of Johannesburg, on the occasion of the 2010 Soccer World Cup. Their sculpture was based on Kentridge’s drawing of a woman street vendor--known colloquially in Johannesburg as a fire walker--carrying a burning brazier on her head. “Fire Walker” thus stands for the ordinary citizen, whose survival depends on his or her ability to negotiate contested urban terrain. The 36-feet-high figure was installed at the foot of the Queen Elizabeth Bridge, on a site formerly used by street traders and taxi washers. This volume documents the commission and also includes two photo essays on street vendors and old city monuments.

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