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Everything She Touched
The Life of Ruth Asawa
ISBN: 9781452174402
(HB+ - E)
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This is the story of a woman who wielded imagination in the face of intolerance and transformed everything she touched into art. Ruth Asawa was raised on a California farm, survived the Japanese American internment camps of World War II, and attended the groundbreaking art school at Black Mountain College. She went on to develop her signature hanging-wire sculptures, create iconic urban installations, revolutionize arts education in her adopted hometown of San Francisco, fight through lupus, and defy convention to nurture a multiracial family.
In this deeply researched and compellingly written biography, Marilyn Chase draws on letters, diaries, sketches, and interviews. Richly illustrated with 70 reproductions of Asawa's art and archival photos of her life, this book is both beautiful and inspiring.
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