Ruth Asawa: The Journal
Publisher: David Zwirner Books
Publish Date: 2023
Ruth Asawa: The Journal is a welcome reminder to find inspiration in the everyday object.
The twentieth-century master Ruth Asawa is renowned for her hand-looped and tied-wire sculptures that explore the interplay of light and shadow. Asawa also produced an enormous body of works on paper, finding moments to weave her creative practice into the fabric of her daily life, depicting her California garden, her family, and her home. The delicate works featured in Asawa’s first Artist Journal beckon the inner artist to carve out time to look and create.
Each journal is beautifully crafted in Verona, Italy.
Details
Publisher: David Zwirner Books
Artist: Ruth Asawa
Contributors: The Artist Journals
Publication Date: 2023
ISBN: 9781644230909
Retail: $35 | £25
Status: Available
Designer: Sarah Schrauwen
Printer: VeronaLibri, Verona
Binding: Hardcover, with collectible bookmark, and colored edges in complementary hues
Dimensions: 7 × 9.75 in | 17.8 × 24.8 cm
Pages: 160
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.
The Artist Journals
The Artist Journals go beyond canonical art to capture the modern and contemporary spirit of today’s most acclaimed painters, sculptors, and other major creative forces. Created in close collaboration with each artist or artist’s estate, these beautifully produced blank books—with their stunning wraparound cover artwork, endpapers, patterned interior pages, and bellybands that transform into collectible bookmarks—are works of art themselves, designed to inspire, collect, and gift to a wide audience.
$35