The sculpture of Ruth Asawa : contours in the air
(Book)

Originally published on the occasion of the exhibition at the de Young, November 18, 2006-January 28, 2007, and at the American National Museum, Los Angeles, March 10-May 27, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 312-316) and index.

"The Sculpture of Ruth Asagawa: Contours in the Air" :,November 18, 2006-January 28, 2007,,de Young Museum, San Francisco, California, United States.

"The Sculpture of Ruth Asagawa: Contours in the Air" :,March 10-May 27, 2007,,Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, California, United States.

"Through her innovative experimentations across media, Ruth Asawa (American, 1926-2013) invented a powerful vocabulary that brought a unique perspective to the field of modern abstract art. Her use of nontraditional materials, such as wire, resulted in work that fosters a deeper awareness of natural forms by revealing their structural properties and transfigures the commonplace into metaphors for life processes. This revised edition of The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa: Contours in the Air features enlightening new essays and an expanded chronology that explore Asawa's fascinating life and her artistic legacy. Replete with more than fifty new images, the volume traces Asawa's development into a pioneering modernist sculptor--from her early works on paper created at Black Mountain College in the 1940s to the refinement of her signature looped-wire sculptural technique in San Francisco over the course of her career. This book also examines Asawa's public commissions and activism through arts education to reveal how she redefined art beyond stylistic practice, as a way of thinking and acting in the world.",--Publisher's description, jacket.

Text in American English.