Cornell, Daniell, et al. Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 2007.
English, Later Edition, Very Good, SC, 4to, 9 ½” x 11," 256 pp.
ISBN: 9780520250451
White stiff wraps with full-color photographs of Asawa’s works to front and back, blue and black text to front and spine, black text to inside long gate flaps. Mild shelfwear to front and back, minor creasing to back near fore edge, very mild edgewear, crease to back inside flap, otherwise clean throughout, tightly bound, and excellent. 256 pp. Replete with full-color and black-and-white photographs. Published in conjunction with the exhibition The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa: Contours in the Air, touring 2006-2007. Text by Daniell Cornell, Emily K. Doman Jennings, Mary Emma Harris, et al. An overview of Asawa’s life and art, including an interview with Ruth Asawa and Albert Lanier from 2002. From the inside flap: “Beginning with her earliest works…this beautifully illustrated volume traces Asawa’s trajectory as a pioneering modernist sculptor recognized nationally for her wire sculpture, public commissions, and activism in education and the arts.”
