Name/Title
Ruth Asawa : through lineEntry/Object ID
N9500.A83.T4 2023Description
"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." -- PUBLISHERContext
Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same title held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, September 16, 2023-January 15, 2024, and The Menil Collection, March 22-July 21, 2024.Lexicon
Search Terms
artist monographs, drawing, american--exhibitionsBook Details
Author
Ruth Asawa, Kim Conaty, Édouard Kopp, Aleesa AlexanderPublisher
The Menil Collection, Whitney Museum of American ArtDate Published
2023ISBN
9780300273281Notes
Length: 231General Notes
Note Type
ContentsNote
Foreword / Rebecca Rabinow and Adam D. Weinberg -- Acknowledgments / Kim Conaty and Edouard Kopp -- Preface / Kim Conaty and Edouard Kopp -- "Your hand is already flowing" : Ruth Asawa's daily practice of drawing / Kim Conaty -- Drawn together : Ruth Asawa and community / Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander -- The pedagogical value of paper / Jordan Troeller -- Instinct and inquiry : Ruth Asawa's use of drawing materials and techniques / Edouard Kopp -- Eight themes. Learning to see -- Found and transformed -- Forms within forms -- In and out -- Rhythms and waves -- Growth patterns -- Curiosity and control -- Life lines -- Works in the exhibition.