Completely satisfied launch day to Bottle caps: the artwork of El Anatsui written by Alison Goldberg and illustrated by Elizabeth Zunon! bottle caps is an inspiring biography of Ghanaian artist El Anatsui whose handmade sculptures, constructed from discarded bottle caps, have gained worldwide acclaim and have been exhibited all over the world.
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In regards to the ebook:
†Whenever you contact one thing, you permit a cost and everybody who touches it connects with you indirectly.” — El Anatsui
El Anatsui has all the time written his personal story. As an artwork scholar on the College of Ghana, El seen that the artists and kinds he studied had been primarily based on European traditions. Curious concerning the artwork historical past of his personal tradition, El noticed his folks and located tales within the materials they wore and the way in which they used recycled items. He determined to inform these tales by his art work.
El experimented with totally different media: baking damaged clay into new pots and chopping wooden into sculptures with a chainsaw. Each time El tried one thing new, he introduced with him the expertise of all of the experiments he did earlier than. After coming throughout a discarded bag of glittering bottle caps, El puzzled: What was their story? He experimented with the brand new materials—disassembling, flattening, and reshaping—then stitched the tops along with thread. The end result was massive, flowing tapestries that inform tales about historical past, tradition and connecting folks. Right this moment, El’s bottle cap sculptures are exhibited everywhere in the world and encourage audiences all over the place.
Here is the compelling story of a Ghanaian sculptor whose ardour, creativity and awe-inspiring art work remind us that creating highly effective artwork is about staying true to your self.
Reward for Bottle caps: the artwork of El Anatsui†
†[An] glorious biography… [that] deserves a spot on the cabinets of the general public library.” †ebook record
“A captivating introduction to the Ghanaian artist El Anatsui.” †The Horn Ebook
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Alison Goldberg is a author primarily based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the writer of I Love You for Miles and Miles. She blogs about activism in kids’s literature and enjoys researching every little thing from marine life to modern artwork for her books. Alison first grew to become acquainted with El Anatsui’s work whereas learning artwork in Ghana in 1995 and has since looked for alternatives to see his sculptures. You’ll be able to go to her on-line at alisongoldberg.com.
Elizabeth Zunon obtained her Bachelor of Wonderful Arts in Illustration from the Rhode Island Faculty of Design in 2006, and since then she has illustrated books, in addition to making jewellery and purses. Zunon grew up in Ivory Coast, West Africa, however now lives in Albany, New York.
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