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ID: 500034780
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Record Type: Person |
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Anatsui, El (Ghanaian painter, sculptor, and mixed-media artist, born 1944)
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Note: Anatsui is known for designs cut into wooden surfaces and fabricated freestanding wood pieces and installations. His themes include destruction and reconstitution of materials as metaphors for life and changes in Africa. African artist born in Ghana; teaches sculpture in Nigeria. |
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Ghanaian (preferred) |
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Nigerian |
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African |
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artist (preferred) |
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painter |
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sculptor |
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mixed-media artist |
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carver |
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woodcarver |
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Biographies:
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(Ghanaian painter, sculptor, and mixed-media artist, born 1944) ..... [VP Preferred]
(artist 1944-) ..... [GRL]
(African artist) ..... [AVERY]
(African artist) ..... [AVERY]
(African artist, born 1944) ..... [AVERY]
( sculptor, born 1944) ..... [CL-Courtauld]
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| Subject: ........ | [AVERY, CL-Courtauld, GRL, VP] |
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Art in Action: Nature, Creativity, and Our Collective Future (2007) 102
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Artnet [online] (2003-) accessed 21 February 2008
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Contemporary African Artists (1990)
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GRI Library, author records (1998-)
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LCNAF Library of Congress Name Authority File [n.d.] 152
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Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) 91104498
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National Museum of African Art, The Poetics of Line (1997) 10 ff.
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Personal Communication e-mail from National Museum of African Art, Mar. 23, 1998
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Witt Library, Authority files | | | | | | | | |
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