The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa: Contours in the Air (Second Edition)

By Timothy Anglin Burgard (Editor), Daniell Cornell (Editor).

An expanded edition of the definitive book on Ruth Asawas fascinating life and her lasting contributions to American art.

The work of American artist Ruth Asawa (19262013) is brought into brilliant focus in this definitive book, originally published to accompany the first complete retrospective of Asawas career at 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 worksdrawings and paintings created in the 1940s while she was studying at Black Mountain Collegethis beautiful volume traces Asawas 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.

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.

Paper: 332 pp.