In the Making Ex 6

The work discribed in the book by William Kentridge is definitely politically charged which would allude to an extrenal source of inspiration, like the book claims. However I think that his work seemed more internally motivated due to the emotional impact the apartheid had on him and the way this affects his work. Although the emotion stemed from an external source I think the actual inspiration for the work was internal. This in turn made me question if there was such a thing as work truely inspired/motivated by an external source. I think that the process of making art is too emotional, time consuming, and personal for the the motivated to only come from your surroundings.
To answer the question from the book I do not think that his work is propagandistic because his work is not being displayed to the public in a way that makes them want to take immediate political action. It seems that the point of the work is more to make people aware of the way the apartheid has effected the people of South Africa. I think that for the same reasons you cannot really consider the work revolutionary either. I think that it is therapeutic for him and the viewer. For him the process fo making the art is the therapeutic part, it says in the reading that the working and reworking of the drawings to make the anamation has this effect on him. Than for the audience it is probably theraputic to see these major topics addressed and perhaps make the viewer feel less alone.