North Carolina Museum of Art
El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote to You about Africa
Bibliography
Websites
Artist’s website
http://www.elanatsui.com/
Jack Shainman Gallery
http://www.jackshainman.com/artist-images2.html
Exhibition website organized by the National Museum of African Art
http://www.nmafa.si.edu/exhibits/gawu/index.html
Books
Lisa Binder, El Anatsui: when I last wrote to you about Africa. New York, 2010.
NB1099.G53 A52 2010
Contemporary African Artists: Changing Tradition. New York, 1990.
N7398.C66 1990
Clementine Deliss, Seven Stories About Modern Art in Africa. Paris, 1995.
N7391.65 S48 1995
El Anatsui at the Clark; El Anatsui in Conversation with Chika Okeke-Agulu.
Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven, CT: Yale
University Press, 2011.
NB1099.G53 A52 2011
Okwui Enwezor and Chika Okeke-Agulu, Contemporary African Art Since 1980. Bologne,
2009.
N7380.C628 2009
Kojo Fosu, 20th Century Art of Africa. Accra, Ghana: Artists Alliance, 1993.
N7391.65.F67 1993
Glenn Harper and Twylene Moyer, Conversations on Sculpture. Hamilton, NJ: ISC Press;
Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2007.
NB198.C35213 2007
Sidney L. Kasfir, Contemporary African Art. London; New York, 2000.
N7380.K37 2000
Yukiya Kawaguchi, A Fateful Journey: Africa in the works of El Anatsui. Tokyo, 2010.*
Jean Kennedy, New Currents, Ancient Rivers: Contemporary African Artists in a
Generation of Change. Washington, 1992.
N7391.65.K46 1992
Simon Njami, Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent. Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany:
Cantz, 2005.
N7380.5.S56 2005
John Picton, El Anatsui: a sculpted history of Africa. London, 1998.
NB1099.G53 .A52 1998
Chris Spring, Angaza Afrika: African Art Now. London, 2008.
N7380.S67 2008
All books are available in the Museum Library.
Articles
James Adams, “El Anatsui’s shimmering echoes of a painful past.” The Globe and Mail,
Saturday, October 1, 2010.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/el-anatsuis-shimmering-echoes-of-a-
painful-past/article1737964/
Lisa M. Binder, “El Anatsui: Transformations.” African Arts, Vol. 41, No. 2 (Summer
2008), pp. 24-37.
http://www.mitpressjournals.org/action/doSearch?searchText=%E2%80%9CEl+Anatsui
%3A+Transformations.%E2%80%9D
“El Anatsui lets chance, collaboration into his work” in the Houston Chronicle, January
25, 2010.
http://www.mutualart.com/ExternalArticle/El-Anatsui-lets-chance--collaboration-
in/8A7B84327A886AD8
“ICC to Present World Premiere Retrospective of Ghanaian Artist” in ArtDaily.org (August
8, 2010).
http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_new=39744&int_sec=2
Laure L. James, “Convergence: history, materials, and the human hand: an interview
with El Anatsui.” Art Journal, Vol. 67, Issue 2 (Summer 2008), pp. 36-53.
http://www.mutualart.com/Article/Convergence--History--Materials--and-
the/425399C226726550
C.B. Lidell, “Showing art can be load of rubbish: Ghanian artist El Anatsui’s
contemporary sculptures give new life to today’s mass of waste.” Special to The Japan
Times, Friday, March 4, 2011.
http://www.mutualart.com/ExternalArticle/Showing-art-can-be-a-load-of-
rubbish/C52DC341EB6522D5
Sylvester O. Ogbechie et al., “El Anatsui: A Sculpted History of Africa.” African Arts Vol.
32, No. 4 (Winter, 1999), pp. 91-92.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/3337675
Olu Oguibe, “El Anatsui: Beyond Death and Nothingness.” African Arts Vol. 31, No. 1
(Winter, 1998), pp. 48-55+96.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/3337623
Chika Okeke, "Slashing Wood, Eroding Culture: Conversation with El Anatsui." Nka
Journal of Contemporary African Art Fall/Winter 1994 (1), pp. 33 - 40.
http://nka.dukejournals.org/content/1994/1/34.full.pdf+html?sid=f87abed2-e659-4a4f-
b96f-16e216628de8
Robert Preece, "Out of Africa: A Conversation with El Anatsui." Sculpture Magazine, Vol.
25, No. 6, (July/August 2006), pp. 34-39.
http://www.sculpture.org/documents/scmag06/julaug_06/Elanatsui/elanatsui.shtml
Raphael Rubinstein, “Full-Metal Fabrics.” Art in America, Vol. 94, No. 5, (May 2006), pp.
158-161, 200.
http://www.mutualart.com/Article/Full-Metal-Fabrics/A40D93BE968E2A1A
Alexi Worth, “El Anatsui.” New York Times Magazine, February 22, 2009.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/22/style/tmagazine/22nigeria.html?pagewanted=all
All articles are available in the Museum Library.
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