{"product_id":"everything-she-touched-the-life-of-ruth-asawa-9781452174402","title":"Everything She Touched: The Life of Ruth Asawa","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEverything She Touched: The Life of Ruth Asawa\u003c\/strong\u003e by Chase, Marilyn. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781452174402.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEverything She Touched recounts the incredible life of the American sculptor Ruth Asawa.\n\nThis is the story of a woman who wielded imagination and hope in the face of intolerance and who transformed everything she touched into art. In this compelling biography, author Marilyn Chase brings Asawas story to vivid life. She draws on Asawas extensive archives and weaves together many voices—family, friends, teachers, and critics—to offer a complex and fascinating portrait of the artist.\n\nBorn in California in 1926, Ruth Asawa grew from a farmers daughter to a celebrated sculptor. She survived adolescence in the World War II Japanese-American internment camps and attended the groundbreaking art school at Black Mountain College. Asawa then 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.\n\n• A richly visual volume with over 60 reproductions of Asawas art and archival photos of her life (including portraits shot by her friend, the celebrated photographer Imogen Cunningham)\n• Documents Asawas transformative touch—most notably by turning wire – the material of the internment camp fences – into sculptures\n• Author Marilyn Chase mined Asawas letters, diaries, sketches, and photos and conducted interviews with those who knew her to tell this inspiring story.\n\nRuth Asawa forged an unconventional path in everything she did—whether raising a multiracial family of six children, founding a high school dedicated to the arts, or pursuing her own practice independent of the New York art market.\n\nHer beloved fountains are now San Francisco icons, and her signature hanging-wire sculptures grace the MoMA, de Young, Getty, Whitney, and many more museums and galleries across America.\n\n• Ruth Asawas remarkable life story offers inspiration to artists, art lovers, feminists, mothers, teachers, Asian Americans, history buffs, and anyone who loves a good underdog story.\n• A perfect gift for those interested in Asian American culture and history\n• Great for those who enjoyed Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art by Mary Gabriel, Ruth Asawa: Lifes Work by Tamara Schenkenberg, and Notes and Methods by Hilma af Klint\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Chronicle Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45212633792565,"sku":"ByrdShop_1452174407","price":225.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781452174402_b9809979-6575-45e2-a1e2-0dcd80819940.jpg?v=1779903652","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/everything-she-touched-the-life-of-ruth-asawa-9781452174402","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}