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El Anatsui

Author : Susan M. Vogel
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 3791359789
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (913 download)

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Download or read book El Anatsui written by Susan M. Vogel and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This expanded and revised edition celebrates the work of Ghanaian artist El Anatsui by exploring the artist's life and the trajectory of his remarkable career. 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.

El Anatsui

Author : Okwui Enwezor
Publisher : Damiani Limited
ISBN 13 : 9788862087636
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (876 download)

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Download or read book El Anatsui written by Okwui Enwezor and published by Damiani Limited. This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by two acclaimed scholars Okwui Enwezor and Chika Okeke-Agulu, El Anatsui, 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.

El Anatsui

Author : El Anatsui
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780945802563
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book El Anatsui written by El Anatsui and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title organized by the Museum for African Art, New York, 2010. Participating venues: Institute for Contemporary Culture at the Royal Ontario Museum, Museum for African Art, New York, University of Michigan Museum of Art, North Carolina Museum of Art, Denver Art Museum"--T.p. verso.

El Anatsui

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783791358253
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (582 download)

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Bottle Tops

Author : Alison Goldberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781620149669
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book Bottle Tops written by Alison Goldberg and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The life story of Ghanaian sculptor El Anatsui, a highly acclaimed African artist, whose tapestries made from repurposed bottle tops have been exhibited throughout the world"--

Contemporary African Artists

Author : Studio Museum in Harlem
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary African Artists written by Studio Museum in Harlem and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artists include : El Anatsui, Youssouf Bath, Ablade Glover, Tapfuma Gutsa, Rosemary Karuga, Souleymane Keita, Nicholas Mukomberanwa, Henry Munyaradzi, Bruce Onobrakpeya.

One Thing Well

Author : Rainey Knudson
Publisher : Rice Gallery, Houston
ISBN 13 : 9781646570089
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book One Thing Well written by Rainey Knudson and published by Rice Gallery, Houston. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the history of a pioneering installation-art space Long before it became commonplace, Rice Gallery was one of a handful of spaces in the US devoted to commissioning site-specific installation art. This book documents works by artists including El Anatsui, Shigeru Ban, Tara Donovan, Nicole Eisenman, Yayoi Kusama, Sol LeWitt and Judy Pfaff.

Environment and Object

Author : Lisa Aronson
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9783791352091
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Environment and Object written by Lisa Aronson and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stunning catalog to an important exhibition presents the work of some of the most acclaimed contemporary African artists, examining their relationship with various aspects of the African environment. The definition of a new African artist is as broad and diverse as the continent itself; and the stories these artists tell are at once uplifting and devastating, as are their nations' histories. This book focuses on the impact of the environment on contemporary African life and the use of found objects and appropriated materials in current African art. Artists from the oil-rich Niger Delta create images of the region's ecological destruction, impoverishment, and despair. Works from the Congo and South Africa depict abandoned mines and convict labour. Also included are El Anatsui's constructs made from bottle caps and wire and Romuald Hazoumé's clever masks, pieced together from discarded cans and obsolete telephone parts. Together these artists have created a multidimensional portrait of a continent with rich cultures, multiple challenges, and a creative and resourceful population of inspiring artists. AUTHOR Lisa Aronson is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at Skidmore College. John S. Weber is Dayton Director of the Tang Museum and Professor of Liberal Studies at Skidmore College. ILLUSTRATIONS: 85 colour

The Essential Art of African Textiles

Author : Alisa LaGamma
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588392937
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book The Essential Art of African Textiles written by Alisa LaGamma and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2008 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

African Artists

Author : Joseph L. Underwood
Publisher : Phaidon Press
ISBN 13 : 9781838662431
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book African Artists written by Joseph L. Underwood and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years Africa's booming art scene has gained substantial global attention, with a growing number of international exhibitions and a stronger-than-ever presence on the art market worldwide. Here, for the first time, is the most substantial survey to date of modern and contemporary African-born or Africa-based artists. Working with a panel of experts, this volume builds on the success of Phaidon's bestselling Great Women Artists in re-writing a more inclusive and diverse version of art history.

African Art in Detail

Author : Christopher Spring
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674036222
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book African Art in Detail written by Christopher Spring and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book opens with the question, What is African art? The answer is a brilliantly colorful and detailed look at the myriad materials and genres, forms and meanings, cultural contexts and expressions that comprise artistic traditions across this vast and varied continent. Viewing artworks in their contexts--ancient and modern, urban and rural, western and eastern, decorative and functional--the book is nothing less than a virtual tour of African culture. Masks, textiles, royal art, sculpture, ceramics, tools and weapons--in each instance, the book features examples that reveal the most significant aspects of workmanship, materials, and design in objects of wood, stone, ivory, clay, metalwork, featherwork, leather, basketwork, and cloth. Photographs of each piece alongside close-ups of fine details afford new views of these works and allow for intriguing comparisons between seemingly unrelated objects and media. The featured details evoke the hand and eye of the most accomplished craftspeople across Africa, past and present. In sum, these photographs, along with Chris Spring's enlightening commentary, offer an experience of African art that is at once broad and deep, richly informed and intimately felt. They are, at the same time, a kaleidoscopic view of art from prehistory to gestures prefiguring the future.

I Love You for Miles and Miles

Author : Alison Goldberg
Publisher : Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 0374304432
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (743 download)

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Download or read book I Love You for Miles and Miles written by Alison Goldberg and published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2017-12-26 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the depth, height, and steadiness of one's love for another by comparing it with the deepest drill, tallest crane, and steadiest tugboat.

Contemporary African Art Since 1980

Author : Okwui Enwezor
Publisher : Damiani Limited
ISBN 13 : 9788862080927
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary African Art Since 1980 written by Okwui Enwezor and published by Damiani Limited. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [S]urvey of the work of contemporary African artists from diverse situations, locations, and generations who work either in or outside of Africa, but whose practices engage and occupy the social and cultural complexities of the continent since the past 30 years.... Organized in chronological order, the book covers all major artistic mediums: painting, sculpture, photography, film, video, installation, drawing, collage.... Presents examples of ... work by more than 160 African artists.... [I]ncludes Georges Adeagbo Tayo Adenaike, Ghada Amer, El Anatsui, Kader Attia, Luis Basto, Candice Breitz, Moustapha Dimé, Marlene Dumas, Victor Ekpuk, Samuel Fosso, Jak Katarikawe, William Kentridge, Rachid Koraichi, Mona Mazouk, Julie Mehretu, Nandipha Mntambo, Hassan Musa, Donald Odita, Iba Ndiaye, Richard Onyango, Ibrahim El Salahi, Issa Samb, Cheri Samba, Ousmane Sembene, Yinka Shonibare, Barthelemy Toguo, Obiora Udechukwu, and Sue Williamson.--From publisher description..

African Art

Author : Osa Egonwa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Art written by Osa Egonwa and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Yinka Shonibare CBE

Author : Marc-Aeilko Aris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783777435893
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Yinka Shonibare CBE written by Marc-Aeilko Aris and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-21 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Contemporary African Art

Author : Sidney Littlefield Kasfir
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780500203286
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary African Art written by Sidney Littlefield Kasfir and published by . This book was released on 2000-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical history of the major themes and accomplishments of well-known and obscure African art over the past fifty years examines artists and the new avenues of creative expression in post-colonial Africa.

Re-envisioning the Contemporary Art Canon

Author : Ruth E Iskin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317275039
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Re-envisioning the Contemporary Art Canon written by Ruth E Iskin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Re-envisioning the Contemporary Art Canon: Perspectives in a Global World seeks to dissect and interrogate the nature of the present-day art field, which has experienced dramatic shifts in the past 50 years. In discussions of the canon of art history, the notion of ‘inclusiveness’, both at the level of rhetoric and as a desired practice is on the rise and gradually replacing talk of ‘exclusion’, which dominated critiques of the canon up until two decades ago. The art field has dramatically, if insufficiently, changed in the half-century since the first protests and critiques of the exclusion of ‘others’ from the art canon. With increased globalization and shifting geopolitics, the art field is expanding beyond its Euro-American focus, as is particularly evident in the large-scale international biennales now held all over the globe. Are canons and counter-canons still relevant? Can they be re-envisioned rather than merely revised? Following an introduction that discusses these issues, thirteen newly commissioned essays present case studies of consecration in the contemporary art field, and three commissioned discussions present diverse positions on issues of the canon and consecration processes today. This volume will be of interest to instructors and students of contemporary art, art history, and museum and curatorial studies.