Ruth Asawa: Life's WorkBringing together works from across Asawa's career, this expansive and beautifully illustrated volume examines her output both as an artist and as a passionate advocate for arts education. |
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User Review - pdever - LibraryThingThis book is a catalog to accompany a retrospective of Ruth Asawa;s work at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation. It showcases a lot of Asawa's art and also illuminates aspects of her life and experience ... Read full review
Contents
Directors Foreword | 6 |
San Francisco Housewife and Mother | 35 |
Transparency and its Other | 45 |
Evolution of Form | 130 |
Exhibition Checklist | 146 |
Lenders to the Exhibition | 152 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Ruth Asawa: Life's Work |
| Editor | Tamara H. Schenkenberg |
| author of text accompanying photos | Helen Molesworth |
| Contributors | Tamara H. Schenkenberg, Helen Molesworth |
| Edition | unabridged |
| Publisher | Yale University Press, 2019 |
| ISBN | 0300242697, 9780300242690 |
| Length | 158 pages |
| Subjects | › › Art / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General Art / History / Contemporary (1945-) Art / Individual Artists / Monographs |
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