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The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa, Second Edition

Contours in the Air

Herausgeber: Burgard, Timothy Anglin; Cornell, Daniell

Beschreibung

Through her lifelong experimentations with wire, especially its capacity to balance open and closed forms, Asawa invented a powerful new vocabulary that contributed a unique perspective to the field of twentieth-century abstract sculpture. Working in a variety of nontraditional media, Asawa performed a series of remarkable metamorphoses, leading viewers into a deeper awareness of natural forms by revealing their structural properties. Through her art, Asawa transfigured the commonplace into metaphors for life processes themselves. The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa establishes the importance of Asawa's work within a larger cultural context of artists who redefined art as a way of thinking and acting in the world, rather than as merely a stylistic practice.

Autor

Timothy Anglin Burgard is the Ednah Root Curator in Charge of American Art at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. His publications include Revelations: Art from the African American South, Richard Diebenkorn: The Berkeley Years, 1953-1966, and Matter and Spirit: Stephen De Staebler. Daniell Cornell is an independent arts professional, cultural historian, curator, and educator who has held positions at the New Museum, New York; the Morgan Library, New York; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and most recently at the Palm Spring Art Museum as Donna and Cargill MacMillan Director of Art.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of California Press
• 2 ed
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 282mm x 243mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 1494g
• ISBN-13: 9780520304840
• ISBN-10: 0520304845
• Artikelnr.: 55559641