书名：Ruth Asawa: Retrospective / 鲁思·阿萨瓦回顾展

作者：Janet Bishop

出版：Yale University Press，2025

装帧：精装，336页

语种：英语

尺寸：23.7*32.2 cm

这是对20世纪最具创新精神的艺术家之一创作实践的里程碑式调研。

露丝·阿萨瓦（Ruth Asawa，1926–2013）以其蜿蜒曲折的环形铁丝雕塑而闻名，在她长达六十余载的职业生涯中——从20世纪40年代在实验性的黑山学院（Black Mountain College）求学时期，到后来在旧金山这座她所选择的定居城市度过的成熟岁月——她运用日常材料，在多种媒介中不断推陈出新，创作出无数创新之作。

这本图册丰富的插图展现了阿萨瓦作品的惊人广度，从20世纪50年代为她赢得全国关注的抽象环形铁丝雕塑，到她受自然启发的绑线作品、陶土与青铜铸件、折纸、绘画、素描、素描本以及版画。本书探讨了阿萨瓦位于旧金山的长期居所和花园如何成为她创作实践的核心，并突出了合作与包容的精神，这种精神贯穿于她众多的公共雕塑委托项目，以及她对艺术倡导事业的坚定奉献。

论文及其他文章从现代抽象雕塑的语境、工艺与铁丝材质特性的视角，以及她作为日裔美国人的亚裔美国人身份和她在二战期间与家人一同被监禁的个人历史出发，对阿萨瓦及其作品进行了审视。重点文本还揭示了阿萨瓦与约瑟夫·阿尔伯斯（Josef Albers）、伊莫金·坎宁安（Imogen Cunningham）和R·巴克敏斯特·富勒（R. Buckminster Fuller）等关键艺术人物之间的联系，她与这些人保持着长久的友谊。

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.