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The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa, Second Edition - Contours in the Air (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa, Second Edition - Contours in the Air (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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An expanded edition of the definitive book on Ruth Asawa's
fascinating life and her lasting contributions to American art. The
work of American artist Ruth Asawa (1926-2013) is brought into
brilliant focus in this definitive book, originally published to
accompany the first complete retrospective of Asawa's career,
organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco in 2006. This
new edition features an expanded collection of essays and a
detailed illustrated chronology that explore Asawa's fascinating
life and her lasting contributions to American art. Beginning with
her earliest works-drawings and paintings created in the 1940s
while she was studying at Black Mountain College-this beautiful
volume traces Asawa's flourishing career in San Francisco and her
trajectory as a pioneering modernist sculptor who is recognized
internationally for her innovative wire sculptures, public
commissions, and activism on behalf of public arts education.
Through her lifelong experimentations with wire, especially its
capacity to balance open and closed forms, Asawa invented a
powerful vocabulary that contributed a unique perspective to the
field of twentieth-century abstract sculpture. Working in a variety
of nontraditional media, Asawa performed a series of remarkable
metamorphoses, leading viewers into a deeper awareness of natural
forms by revealing their structural properties. Through her art,
Asawa transfigured the commonplace into metaphors for life
processes themselves. The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa establishes the
importance of Asawa's work within a larger cultural context of
artists who redefined art as a way of thinking and acting in the
world, rather than as merely a stylistic practice. This updated
edition includes a new introduction and more than fifty new images,
as well as original essays that reflect on the impact of American
political history on Asawa's artistic vision, her experience with
printmaking, and her friendship with photographer Imogen
Cunningham. Contributors include Susan Ehrens, Mary Emma Harris,
Karin Higa, Jacqueline Hoefer, Emily K. Doman Jennings, Paul J.
Karlstrom, John Kreidler, Susan Stauter, Colleen Terry, and Sally
B. Woodbridge. Published in association with the Fine Arts Museums
of San Francisco (FAMSF).
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