{"product_id":"everything-she-touched-the-life-of-ruth-asawa-paperback","title":"Everything She Touched: The Life of Ruth Asawa (Paperback)","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\" id=\"shopify-section-product\" class=\"shopify-section\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-details\" data-section-id=\"prodict-details\" data-section-type=\"product-details\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-details__tabs-content-container\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-details__tab-content rte active\" data-tab-content=\"1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEverything She Touched\u003c\/em\u003e recounts the incredible life of the American sculptor Ruth Asawa.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis 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 Asawa's story to vivid life. She draws on Asawa's extensive archives and weaves together many voices—family, friends, teachers, and critics—to offer a complex and fascinating portrait of the artist. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBorn in California in 1926, Ruth Asawa grew from a farmer's 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.Ruth 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. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHer 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.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"shopify-section-static-product-recommendations\" class=\"shopify-section\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"section product-recommendations\" data-section-type=\"product-recommendations\" data-section-id=\"static-product-recommendations\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-recommendations product-recommendations__wrapper product-recommendations__wrapper--above section--outline\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\" class=\"product-recommendations__side\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Chronicle Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48882528452761,"sku":null,"price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0887\/5308\/files\/9781797232645_01_1000x_jpg.webp?v=1786745269","url":"https:\/\/open-editions.com\/products\/everything-she-touched-the-life-of-ruth-asawa-paperback","provider":"OPEN EDITIONS","version":"1.0","type":"link"}