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EL ANATSUI: ART AND LIFE by Susan Mullin Vogel is the essential resource on the Ghanaian artist known worldwide for spectacular tapestries of reclaimed bottle tops. This revised and expanded book follows Anatsui on his remarkable journey from an obscure university town in Africa to the summit of the global art world. Vogel, whose exhibitions and books have influenced African art history, analyzes Anatsui's unique art form, often quoting the artist's interviews with her. She describes his engagement with African traditions, his early work in clay and wood, a triumphant decade exhibiting radiant metal cloths, then a profound development in the second decade, presented here for the first time. The book takes us inside his busy studio, revealing the gritty reality and the subtle genius of his bottle-top hangings, exhibited in museums and biennials across the world.

Art --- lids [covers] --- deterioration --- found object sculpture --- recycling --- caps [closures] --- crowns [closures] --- wall hangings --- tapestries --- metal --- #breakthecanon --- El Anatsui

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Art --- Sculpture --- outdoor sculpture --- sculpting --- Saraceno, Tomás --- El Anatsui --- Othoniel, Jean-Michel --- Jaarsma, Mella --- Lenzlinger, Jörg --- Sánchez Castillo, Fernando --- Schnitger, Lara --- Steiner, Gerda --- Warmerdam, van, Marijke --- Adipurnomo, Nindityo --- Creten, Johan --- Wilks, Stephen

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Sculpture --- outdoor sculpture --- Simons, Johan --- Saraceno, Tomás --- El Anatsui --- Othoniel, Jean-Michel --- Séchas, Alain --- Aladogan, Eylem --- Condon, Brody --- Houseago, Thomas --- Hurkmans, Rini --- Jaarsma, Mella --- Lenzlinger, Jörg --- Maetake, Yasue --- Monahan, Matthew --- Roberts, Charlie --- Sánchez Castillo, Fernando --- Schnitger, Lara --- Steiner, Gerda --- Sumégné, Joseph --- Tavares, Ana Maria --- François, Michel --- Warmerdam, van, Marijke --- Boshoff, Willem --- Adipurnomo, Nindityo --- Creten, Johan --- Houwelingen, van, Hans --- Pondick, Rona --- Wilks, Stephen

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Written by two acclaimed scholars Okwui Enwezor and Chika Okeke-Agulu, 'El Anatsui: The Reinvention of Sculpture', is the most comprehensive, incisive and authoritative account yet on the work of El Anatsui, the world-renowned, Ghanaian-born sculptor. The product of more than three decades of research, scholarship and close collaboration with the artist, this book shows why his early wood reliefs and terracottas, and the later monumental metal sculptures, exemplify an innovative critical search for alternative models of art making.The authors argue that the pervasiveness of fragmentation as a compositional device in Anatsui's oeuvre invites meditation on the impact of colonization and postcolonial global forces on African cultures. At the same time, the simultaneous invocation of resilience and fragility across his media invests his abstract sculptures with iconic power. Insisting on the intimate connection between form and idea in Anatsui's work, the authors show how, in his critically acclaimed metal works, the manual work of flattening, cutting, twisting, and crushing bottle caps and using copper wires to suture and stitch the elements into one dazzling, reconfigurable epic piece serves as a powerful metaphor for the constitution of human society. This book presents Anatsui as a visionary of incomparable imagination. Yet, it places his work within a broader historical context, specifically the postcolonial modernism of mid-twentieth-century African artists and writers, the cultural ferment of post-independence Ghana, as well as within the intellectual environment of the 1970's Nsukka School. By recovering these histories, and subjecting his work to vigorous analysis, the authors show how and why Anatsui became one of the most formidable sculptors of our time.

Art --- sculpture [visual works] --- monumental [size or dimensions] --- bas-reliefs [sculpture] --- wall pieces --- floor pieces --- found object sculpture --- aluminum [metal] --- human figures [visual works] --- El Anatsui --- Afrikaanse kunst ; in confrontatie met Westerse kunst ; 20ste eeuw --- Tentoonstellingscatalogi ; München ; Haus der Kunst --- Textielkunst ; 21ste eeuw --- Afrikaanse kunst ; beeldhouwkunst ; Nigeria --- Afrikaanse kunst en architectuur ; Ghana --- Beeldhouwkunst ; 20ste en 21ste eeuw --- Anatsui, El °1944 (°Anyako, Volta Region, Ghana) --- 73.07 --- Beeldhouwkunst ; beeldhouwers A-Z