Notes

"I worked on a series of prints based on William Hogarth's work [...] Industry and Idleness, this time set in Johannesburg. Hogarth's moral fable shows the industrious apprentice marrying his boss's daughter and ending up as Lord Mayor of London, whilst the idle apprentice falls prey to vice (he gambles in the churchyard) and ends up hanged at Tyburn.  In the South Africa of the 1980s this moral equivalent did not seem to hold, and my series shows the industrious man still doomed by circumstances beyond him - in this case his class and his race - while someone in a different position, of different colour and privilege, ends up wealthy and successful despite his idleness [...]" 

William Kentridge Prints, David Krut Publishing, Johannesburg, 2006, page 30

Literature

William Kentridge Prints, David Krut Publishing, Johannesburg, 2006, page 30, illustrated

Warren Siebrits, States of Emergence: South Africa 1960-1990, Warren Siebrits Modern and Contemporary Art, Johannesburg, 2002, illustrated