RUTH ASAWA: Through Line

Language: English

Published by 2023, 2023

0300273282 / 9780300273281

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Conaty, Kim. RUTH ASAWA: Through Line. 224 pages with 150 color and b&w plates. Folio, cloth. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2023. Ruth Asawa (1926-2013), widely known for her looped-wire sculptures, was an inveterate drawer. She filled sketchbook after sketchbook and even stated that drawing was central to her sculpture. This volume is the first to consider the significance of drawing in Asawa's oeuvre throughout her career, featuring essays that examine the range of Asawa's aesthetic maneuvers across materials and techniques; how Asawa's drawing intertwined with the Bay Area arts community and her contributions to public education as a teacher and organizer; and the influence of Josef Albers's pedagogy and Asawa's lifelong adoption of his type of paper folding. Tracing Asawa's artistic journey from her first formal art lessons in a Japanese American internment camp during World War II through her time at Black Mountain College and beyond, this comprehensive overview of the artist's drawings includes reproductions of more than one hundred works-many of which have never been published-organized into eight thematic sections that cut through time, reflecting an art-making practice that was more circular or cyclical than linear.…

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Title
RUTH ASAWA: Through Line
Author
Conaty, Kim; Kopp, Edouard; RUTH ASAWA
Publisher
2023
Publication year
2023
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
ISBN 10
0300273282
ISBN 13
9780300273281

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