Ruth Asawa: retrospective

Uittreksel

"A landmark survey of the wide-ranging practice of one of the twentieth century's most innovative artists. Best known for her sinuous looped-wire sculptures, Ruth Asawa (1926-2013) used everyday materials to create endlessly innovative works in a variety of media over her more than six-decade-long career, from her student days at the experimental Black Mountain College in the 1940s through her mature years in her adopted home city of San Francisco. This extensively illustrated volume explores the astonishing expansiveness of Asawa's work, from the abstract looped-wire sculptures for which she garnered national attention in the 1950s to her nature-inspired tied-wire pieces, clay and bronze casts, paperfolds, paintings, drawings, sketchbooks, and prints. The book explores the ways in which her longtime San Francisco home and garden served as the epicenter of her creative practice, and highlights the ethos of collaboration and inclusivity that informed her numerous public sculpture commissions and unwavering dedication to arts advocacy. Essays and other writings consider Asawa and her work within the context of modern abstract sculpture, through the lens of craft and the materiality of wire, and in relation to her Asian American identity and her personal history as a Japanese American who was incarcerated with her family during World War II. Focus texts illuminate the connections between Asawa and key artistic figures such as Josef Albers, Imogen Cunningham, and R. Buckminster Fuller, with whom she maintained enduring relationships." -- Provided by publisher

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Directors' Foreword / Christopher Bedford and Glenn D. Lowry -- Acknowledgments / Janet Bishop and Cara Manes -- Seeing Is Doing: A Guide to Ruth Asawa's Multifaceted Practice / Cara Manes -- From Tool to Ornament: Ruth Asawa's Intricate Refusals / Anne Anlin Cheng -- A Letter to Ruth Asawa / Ruth Ozeki -- A Seat at the Table: At Home with Ruth Asawa / Janet Bishop -- Side by Side / Isabel Bird -- What Cannot Be Produced Alone: Ruth Asawa's Public Art / Jennie Yoon and Marci Kwon -- Plates with chronology by Dominika Tylcz ; 1926-1949 ; 1950-1959 ; 1960-1969 ; 1970-1989 ; 1990-2013 -- Structural Sculpture: Ruth Asawa and Josef Albers / Jeffrey Saletnik -- Triangles to Topology: Ruth Asawa, Max Dehn, and Buckminster Fuller / Charlotte Healy -- Forms within Forms within Forms: Ruth Asawa and Ray Johnson / Caitlin Haskell -- Collaborative in Nature: Ruth Asawa and the Pond Farm Community / Marin Sarvé-Tarr -- Mothers' Work: Ruth Asawa and Imogen Cunningham / Corey Keller -- The Transparency of Asian American Aesthetic Form: A Matière Study for Ruth / Genji Amino.