El Anatsui : new worlds / edited by Amanda Gilvin and John R. Stomberg. - South Hadley, MA : Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, [2015]. Lebanon, New Hampshire : Distributed by University Press of New England - 127 pages : color illustrations, portrait ; 28 cm

"This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition El Anatsui: New Worlds. Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, 21 January-8 June 2014"--Colophon.

Introduction / New worlds / Nurturing creative capacities : thinking through making / El Anatsui : new worlds / El Anatsui in conversation with Obiora Udechukwu / Perspectives (New World map) -- Creating new worlds / El Anatsui : new worlds as new forms of art / Revealing the violence of empire / Metaphors (Alter ego) -- Mapping human nature / El Anatsui's redemptive art / Data collection / Fragments (They finally broke the pot of wisdom) -- Reflection on the African diaspora, Anancy stories, and "They finally broke the pot of wisdom" / Shifting patterns / Dichotomies (Tiled flower garden) -- El Anatsui and inequality in our time / Walking through a tile garden, searching for our mothers / Discoveries (Harbinger) -- Reclaimed : experiments in printmaking and installation / Adventures in music : student compositions in response to El Anatsui's art / The beauty of connection / Memories (Blema) -- El Anatsui in motion : body, space, memory / Coda / Nsukka, the red soil : performance and nostalgia in the art of El Anatsui / John R. Stomberg -- Sara London -- Ellen M. Alvord and Rachel G. Beaupré -- Amanda Gilvin -- moderated by Amanda Gilvin -- Joshua H. Roth -- James Harold -- Amy Martin -- Tim Farnham -- Sara London -- Shaun Trujillo -- Dorothy Mosby -- Martha Hoopes -- Lucas H. Wilson -- Bettina Judd -- Tatiana Ginsberg -- Tian Hui Ng -- Holly Hanson with Lindsay Slabich and students from Mount Holyoke College and the Springfield Renaissance School -- Jim Coleman -- Lauret Savoy -- Bode Omojola.

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Anatsui, El, 1944- --Exhibitions.


Sculpture, Ghanaian--Exhibitions.
Sculpture, Nigerian--Exhibitions.
Refuse as art material--Exhibitions.
Found objects (Art)--Exhibitions.
Trash art.
Bottle caps --Art
Refuse and refuse disposal in art.
Rubbish as Art.
Broken objects--Art.

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