A Life Made by Hand

The Story of Ruth Asawa

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press

Publish Date: 2019

Text and illustration by Andrea D'Aquino

This lushly illustrated book by collage artist Andrea D'Aquino brings Asawa's creative journey to life, detailing the influence of her childhood in a farming family, and her education at Black Mountain College where she pursued an experimental course of education with leading avant-garde artists and thinkers such as Anni and Josef Albers, Buckminster Fuller, Merce Cunningham, and Robert Rauschenberg. Delightful and substantial, this engaging title for young art lovers includes a page of teaching tools for parents and educators.

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Details

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press

Artist: Ruth Asawa

Contributors: Andrea D'Aquino

Publication Date: 2019

ISBN: 9781616898366

Retail: $17.95 | £12.99 | €17

Status: Not Available

Printer: China

Dimensions: 8 × 10.75 in | 20.3 × 27.3 cm

Pages: 40

Artist and Contributors

Ruth Asawa

American artist, educator, and arts activist Ruth Asawa (1926–2013) is known for her extensive body of wire sculptures that challenge conventional notions of material and form through their emphasis on lightness and transparency. Over the course of more than a half century, Asawa created a cohesive body of sculptures and works on paper that, in their innovative use of material and form, deftly synthesizes a wide range of aesthetic preoccupations at the heart of postwar art in America.

Andrea D'Aquino

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