Notes

Kentridge made General at a time of escalating violence, a year before South Africa’s first democratic election, in which a newly freed Nelson Mandela was elected president.

Excerpt from MoMA exhibition label for Impressions from South Africa 1965 to Now, 2011
 

The vigorous line work here was printed from a rigid polycarbonate sheet the artist incised using an electric engraver. Kentridge made several experimental impressions ... creating vivid coloration uncharacteristic of his work overall.

Excerpt from MoMA exhibition label for William Kentridge: Five Themes, 2010

http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A7919&page_number=12&template_id=1&sort_order=1

Exhibited

cf. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Impressions from South Africa 1965 to Now, 23 March - 14 August 2011, where another work from the same edition was exhibited

cf. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, William Kentridge: Five Themes, 24 February - 17 May 2010, where another work from the same edition was exhibited

Literature

cf. William Kentridge Prints, David Krut Publishing, Johannesburg and Grinnell College, Iowa, 2006, pages 48 and 49, where similar works are illustrated

cf. Judith B. Hecker, Impressions from South Africa 1965 to Now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2011, page 43, where another work from the same edition is illustrated