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ID: 500034780
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500034780
 
Record Type: Person
Anatsui, El (Ghanaian painter, sculptor, and mixed-media artist, born 1944)

Note: Born in Ghana and teaches sculpture in Nigeria. Anatsui is known for his large assemblages constructed from discarded materials such as bottle caps. His themes include reuse, transformation, and reconstitution of materials as metaphors for life and changes in Africa.

Names:
Anatsui, El (preferred,V,index,LC,Dutch-P,NA)
El Anatsui (V,display)
Anatsui, Emmanuel Kwami (V)
Anatsui El Dela (V)
Anatsui, Kwami (V)

Nationalities:
Ghanaian (preferred)
Nigerian
African

Roles:
artist (preferred)
painter
sculptor
mixed-media artist
carver
woodcarver
textile artist
ceramicist
installation artist

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Ghana (Africa) (nation)

Events:
resided:   from 1975  Nigeria (Africa) (nation)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
member of ....  Aka Circle of Exhibiting Artists  
................  (Nigerian artists' collective, formed 1985) [500356152]
teacher of ....  Okore, Nnenna  
..................  (Nigerian textile artist, born 1975) [500356096]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Anatsui, El (I)

Biographies:
(Ghanaian painter, sculptor, and mixed-media artist, born 1944) ..... [VP Preferred]
(artist 1944-) ..... [GRL]
( sculptor, born 1944) ..... [CL-Courtauld]
(African artist, born 1944) ..... [AVERY]
(African artist) ..... [AVERY]
(African artist) ..... [AVERY]
(Ghanaian artist, born 1944) ..... [MoMA]
(Ghanaian textile artist, 1944-) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Anatsui, El ........ [AVERY Preferred, CL-Courtauld Preferred, GRL Preferred, MoMA Preferred, RKD Preferred, VP Preferred]
........................  Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon / Artists of the World (2009-) accessed 15 December 2013
........................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
........................  Avery Authority files (1963-)
........................  Enwezor and Okeke-Agulu, Contemporary African Art since 1980 (2009) 216
........................  GRI Library, author records (1998-)
........................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n91104498; accessed 15 December 2013
........................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) 91104498
........................  Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2003-) accessed 23 January 2014
........................  National Museum of African Art, The Poetics of Line (1997) 10 ff.
........................  NDL: National Diet Library [online] (2012-) accessed 15 December 2013
........................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 368362
........................  Witt Library, Authority files
Anatsui El Dela ........ [VP]
...............................  Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon / Artists of the World (2009-) accessed 15 December 2013
Anatsui, Emmanuel Kwami ........ [AVERY, GRL, VP]
...............................................  Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon / Artists of the World (2009-) accessed 15 December 2013
...............................................  Avery Authority files (1963-)
...............................................  GRI Library, author records (1998-)
...............................................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n91104498; accessed 15 December 2013
Anatsui, Kwami ........ [VP]
..............................  Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon / Artists of the World (2009-) accessed 15 December 2013
El Anatsui ........ [AVERY, CL-Courtauld, GRL, MoMA, VP]
......................  Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon / Artists of the World (2009-) accessed 15 December 2013
......................  Art in Action: Nature, Creativity, and Our Collective Future (2007) 102
......................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
......................  Artnet [online] (2003-)
......................  Avery Authority files (1963-)
......................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
......................  GRI Library, author records (1998-)
......................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n91104498; accessed 15 December 2013

Subject: ........ [AVERY, CL-Courtauld, Gallery Systems, GRL, MoMA, RKD, VP]
....................  Art in Action: Nature, Creativity, and Our Collective Future (2007) 102
....................  Artnet [online] (2003-) accessed 21 February 2008
....................  Contemporary African Artists (1990)
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: n91104498
....................  GRI Library, author records (1998-)
....................  LCNAF Library of Congress Name Authority File [n.d.] 152
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: n91104498
....................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) 91104498
....................  Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2003-) accessed 23 January 2014
....................  National Museum of African Art, The Poetics of Line (1997) 10 ff.
....................  Personal Communication e-mail from National Museum of African Art, Mar. 23, 1998
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 368362
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q1323876
....................  Witt Library, Authority files
 
Note:
English .......... [AVERY, VP]
.......... LCNAF Library of Congress Name Authority File [n.d.] 152
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