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El Anatsui
The Reinvention of Sculpture
ISBN: 9788862087636
(HB - EN)
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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 AnatsuiÆs 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 AnatsuiÆs work, the authors show how, in his critically acclaimed metal works, the manual work
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