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Ruth Asawa : through line
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"The practice of drawing is a unifying thread in the art of Ruth Asawa (1926-2013). Known as a sculptor, which she described as "almost like drawing in space", Asawa drew daily and likened it to pl...
"The practice of drawing is a unifying thread in the art of Ruth Asawa (1926-2013). Known as a sculptor, which she described as "almost like drawing in space", Asawa drew daily and likened it to playing scales for musicians. Ruth Asawa Through LIne reveals her wonderfully varied output from the late 1940s to the 1990s. The art of drawing was Ruth Asawa's way to see and understand the world" --
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- edited by Kim Conaty and Edouard Kopp ; with contributions by Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander, Jordan Troeller, Scout Hutchinson, Kirtsten Marples, Isabel Bird
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- English
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- Houston : The Menil Collection ; New York : Whitney Museum of American Art, [2023]
- New Haven ; London : Distributed by Yale University Press
- ©2023
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- 231 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 29 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780300273281, 0300273282
- OCLC
- on1393181143
- Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same title, held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, September 16, 2023-January 15, 2024 and The Menil Collection, March 22-July 21, 2024.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Foreword / Rebecca Rabinow and Adam D. Weinberg -- Acknowledgments / Kim Conaty and Edouard Kopp -- Preface / Kim Conaty and Edouard Kopp -- "Your hand is already flowing": Ruth Asawa's daily practice of drawing / Kim Conaty -- Drawn together: Ruth Asawa and community / Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander -- The pedagogical value of paper / Jordan Troeller -- Instinct and inquiry: Ruth Asawa's use of drawing materials and techniques / Edouard Kopp -- Eight themes. Learning to see -- Found and transformed -- Forms within forms -- In and out -- Rhythms and waves -- Growth patterns -- Curiosity and control -- Life lines -- Works in the exhibition