Uwa
2012
20th C.
Africa, Ghana
172 x 77 in. (436.9 x 195.6 cm)
By (primary)
El Anatsui
Ghanaian, born in 1944
Object Type:
Metalwork
Medium:
Aluminum and copper wire
Credit Line:
Museum purchase made possible by the C. Diane Christensen Fund for African Art and the Phyllis Wattis Program Fund
Accession Number:
2017.7
Currently On View: 125 Africa
Provenance
Altman Siegel (dealer), San Francisco, CA; sold to the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, 2017.
Bibliography
Emily Nathan, "El Anatsui" (Jack Shainman exhibition review) in "Art News", (February 2013). Pg. 85.; Chika Okeke-Agulu, "El Anatsui: Master of Proverbs" in "Huffington Post", (March 25, 2013). Online.; Susan Mullin Vogel, "El Anatsui: Pot of Wisdom" in "African Arts", (vol. 46, no. 3, 2013). Pg. 88.; Sanders, Sophie, "Spirited pattern and decoration in contemporary Black Atlantic Art" (dissertation), (Temple University, 2013); Robert Preece, "Material Splendor: A Conversation with El Anatsui" in "Sculpture", (November 2014). Pg 38–43, repr.
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globalism
Use for the approach to social, cultural, scientific, ecological, or humanistic questions involving an orientation to the world as a single interacting system, and the placing of its interests above those of individual regions or nations. For the similar theory or belief discussed or applied specifically in the context of politics and political science, use "internationalism." [November 1996 scope note changed; related term added; alternate term added. February 1991 descriptor added.]
recycling
Recovery and reuse of materials and energy from waste. ALLAB3 [February 1994 alternate term added. December 1992 descriptor moved. April 1991 descriptor added.]
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