ISBN：9781941701683

书名：Ruth Asawa

作者：Texts by Tiffany Bell and Robert Storr

出版：David Zwirner Books，2018

装帧：精装，176页

语种：英文

开本：21.6×33.7cm

美国雕塑家、教育家和艺术活动家鲁斯·阿萨瓦（Ruth Asawa）以其的复杂、灵动的铁丝雕塑闻名。通过对轻盈与透明的强调，她挑战了人们对材料与形状的传统看法。此书汇集了一大批阿萨瓦的雕塑、纸上作品，以及其他等等。它们充分显示了，阿萨瓦新颖的艺术实践无疑处在20世纪艺术史遗产的中心位置。

Known for her extensive body of intricate and dynamic wire sculptures, American sculptor, educator, and arts activist Ruth Asawa challenged conventional notions of material and form through her emphasis on lightness and transparency.

Asawa began her now iconic looped-wire works in the late 1940s while still a student at Black Mountain College. Their unique structure was inspired by a 1947 trip to Mexico, during which local craftsmen taught her how to create baskets out of wire. While seemingly unrelated to the lessons of color and composition taught in Josef Albers’s legendary Basic Design course, these works, as she explained, are firmly grounded in his teachings in their use of unexpected materials and their elision of figure and ground.

Presenting an important and timely overview of the artist’s work, this monograph brings together a broad selection of her sculptures, works on paper, and more. Together the body of work demonstrates the centrality of Asawa’s innovative practice to the art-historical legacy of the twentieth century. In addition to an incredible group of photographs of the artist and her work by Imogen Cunningham, a selection of rare archival materials will illustrate a chronology of the artist’s life and work. Featuring an extensive text by Tiffany Bell which explores the artist’s influences, history, and, most importantly, the work itself, as well as a significant essay by Robert Storr discussing Asawa’s work in relation to mid-twentieth century art history, culture, and scientific theory.