Enwezor Okwui
Enwezor Okwui - El Anatsui The Reinvention Of Sculpture - Hardcover
Enwezor Okwui - El Anatsui The Reinvention Of Sculpture - Hardcover
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Description: Authored by two acclaimed scholars Okwui Enwezor and Chika Okeke - Agulu this is the most comprehensive 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 and close collaboration with the artist it shows how his early wood reliefs and terracottas and the later monumental metal sculptures express a search for alternative models of art - making. The authors argue that the pervasiveness of fragmentation as a compositional device in Anatsui's oeuvre evokes the impact of colonization and postcolonial forces on African cultures. At the same time the invocation of resilience and fragility invests his shape - shifting sculptures with iconic power. The authors also show how in his critically acclaimed metal works the manual labor 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 human life. This book presents Anatsui as a visionary of incomparable imagination also situating his work within a broader historical context specifically the postcolonial modernism of midcentury African artists and writers the cultural ferment of post - independence Ghana and the intellectual environment of the 1970s Nsukka School. By recovering these histories the authors show how and why Anatsui became one of the most formidable sculptors of our time.
Title: El Anatsui The Reinvention Of Sculpture
Author(s): Enwezor Okwui
Publisher: Damiani
Barcode: 9788862087636
Pages: 360 Pages, 300 Illustrations, Color
Publication Date: 6/14/2022
Category: Individual Artists, Art Monographs
Description: Authored by two acclaimed scholars Okwui Enwezor and Chika Okeke - Agulu this is the most comprehensive 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 and close collaboration with the artist it shows how his early wood reliefs and terracottas and the later monumental metal sculptures express a search for alternative models of art - making. The authors argue that the pervasiveness of fragmentation as a compositional device in Anatsui's oeuvre evokes the impact of colonization and postcolonial forces on African cultures. At the same time the invocation of resilience and fragility invests his shape - shifting sculptures with iconic power. The authors also show how in his critically acclaimed metal works the manual labor 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 human life. This book presents Anatsui as a visionary of incomparable imagination also situating his work within a broader historical context specifically the postcolonial modernism of midcentury African artists and writers the cultural ferment of post - independence Ghana and the intellectual environment of the 1970s Nsukka School. By recovering these histories the authors show how and why Anatsui became one of the most formidable sculptors of our time.
Title: El Anatsui The Reinvention Of Sculpture
Author(s): Enwezor Okwui
Publisher: Damiani
Barcode: 9788862087636
Pages: 360 Pages, 300 Illustrations, Color
Publication Date: 6/14/2022
Category: Individual Artists, Art Monographs
