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Danu
2006 - 200621st
88 in. x 138 in. (223.52 cm x 350.52 cm)
El Anatsui, b. b. 1944
User Text 1
Creation Place:
Africa, Ghana
Medium and Support:
Aluminum, copper wire
Credit Line:
J. David and Laura Seefried Horsfall Endowment Fund purchase
Accession Number:
2006.35
From the artist's acclaimed cloth series. Made from aluminum bottle neck wraps and screw caps discarded by Nigerian distilleries in the process of recycling liquor bottles. Inspired by traditional West African strip woven textiles. Flattened wraps and caps are joined together with copper wire.
Current Location:
Chazen : Gallery : 17
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Dimensions
- Overall Dimensions: 88 in. x 138 in. (223.52 cm x 350.52 cm)
Bibliography List
This object has the following bibliographic references:
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Chazen Museum of Art. "Bulletin 2003-2007." Madison: Chazen Museum of Art, 2010.
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Chazen Museum of Art.
2010
Page Number: p. 39, Figure Number: no. 3 -
Sytsma, Janine. "The Sculpture of El Anatsui: Rupture and Renewal at the Chazen Museum of Art." Bulletin 2003-2007. Chazen Museum of Art (2010): 36-41.
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Chazen Museum of Art.
2010
Page Number: pp. 36-41, Figure Number: no. 3 -
Vogel, Susan Mullin. "El Anatsui Art and Life," vol.1. Munich: Prestel Verlag, 2012.
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Prestel Verlag.
Munich, 2012
Figure Number: no. 102 -
Chazen Museum of Art. "Artscene." Vol. 27, No. 1, January-June 2010.
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Chazen Museum of Art.
Madison, WI, 2010
Page Number: p. 5 -
Rarey, Matthew Francis and Henry John Drewal. "Never at Rest: African Art at the University of Wisconsin." African Arts, vol 53, no. 4 (2020): 68-85.
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MIT Press.
2020
Figure Number: fig. 14 -
Vogel, Susan Mullin. "El Anatsui Art and Life," vol. 2. Munich: Prestel Verlag, 2020.
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Prestel Verlag.
2020
Page Number: p. 82
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