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El Anatsui : when I last wrote to you about Africa
- Title
- El Anatsui : when I last wrote to you about Africa / edited by Lisa M. Binder ; with contributions by Kwame Anthony Appiah [and others].
- Author
- Anatsui, El, 1944-
- Publication
- New York : Museum for African Art, [2010]
- ©2010
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- Description
- 170 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 32 cm
- Summary
- El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote to You about Africa. The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) presents the world premiere of 'El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote to You about Africa', a career retrospective of Ghanaian visual artist El Anatsui. Presented by the Institute for Contemporary Culture (ICC) at the ROM, this exhibition is the artist's first solo show in Canada. Featuring 63 works in various media drawn from public and private collections internationally, 'El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote to You about Africa' will be on display in the Roloff Beny Gallery on Level 4 of the ROM's Michael Lee-Chin Crystal from October 2, 2010 to January 2, 2011. This retrospective has been organized by the Museum for African Art (MfAA), in New York, and will be one of the inaugural exhibitions in the MfAA's new building, which opens in April 2011. Drawing on Ghanaian and Nigerian cultural references as well as global, local and personal histories, El Anatsui's body of work comprises large shimmering metallic tapestries, for which he is best known, as well as paintings and sculptures in wood, ceramic and metal.
- Alternative Title
- When I last wrote to you about Africa
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Note
- Published in conjunction with the exhibition 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.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Foreword / Elsie McCabe Thompson -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Lisa M. Binder -- El Anatsui : the early work / Olu Oguibe -- Mark-making and El Anatsui's reinvention of sculpture / Chika Okeke-Agulu -- The shifting shapes of things to come / Robert Storr -- Discovering El Anatsui / Kwame Anthony Appiah -- Plates -- Artist's biography and exhibition history.
- Call Number
- Sc+ G 23-65
- ISBN
- 9780945802563
- 0945802560
- LCCN
- 2009943568
- OCLC
- 669825718
- Author
- Anatsui, El, 1944- artist.
- Title
- El Anatsui : when I last wrote to you about Africa / edited by Lisa M. Binder ; with contributions by Kwame Anthony Appiah [and others].
- Publisher
- New York : Museum for African Art, [2010]
- Copyright Date
- ©2010
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Chronological Term
- 2000-2099
- Added Author
- Binder, Lisa M.Appiah, Anthony.Oguibe, Olu, 1964-Okeke-Agulu, Chika.Storr, Robert.Royal Ontario Museum. Institute for Contemporary Culture.Museum for African Art (New York, N.Y.)University of Michigan. Museum of Art.North Carolina Museum of Art.Denver Art Museum.
- Research Call Number
- Sc+ G 23-65