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Ruth Asawa: All Is Possible Ruth Asawa 9781644230787
RRP: €71.40Booksplease Price: €44.68Known for her intricate and distinct artistic language, Asawa produced numerous sculptures, drawings, and prints that are built on simple, repeated gestures that accumulate into complex compositions... -
What Did Ruth Asawa Make? Ruth Asawa 9781644231609
RRP: €15.41Booksplease Price: €11.00Explore the world of artist Ruth Asawa in this lively, interactive lift-the-flap book for children ages 0-3.Ruth Asawa found inspiration everywhere-whether she looked to her children, her garden, or... -
Ruth Asawa Tiffany Bell 9781941701683
RRP: €71.40Booksplease Price: €49.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941701683Author Tiffany BellFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint David ZwirnerPublisher David... -
Ruth Asawa: Life's Work by Tamara Schenkenberg
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €37.53"Doing is living. That is all that matters."-Ruth Asawa Throughout her long and prolific career American artist Ruth Asawa (1926-2013) developed innovative sculptures in wire, a medium she explored... -
Ruth Asawa: Citizen of the Universe by Emma Ridgway
RRP: €33.32Booksplease Price: €23.53A unique look at the visionary artist, educator and activist Ruth Asawa (1926-2013). 'I state, without hesitation or reserve, that I consider Ruth Asawa to be the most gifted, productive, and... -
Ruth Asawa: Retrospective Janet Bishop 9780300278859
RRP: €59.50Booksplease Price: €53.94A landmark survey of the wide-ranging practice of one of the twentieth century's most innovative artists Best known for her sinuous looped-wire sculptures, Ruth Asawa (1926-2013) used everyday... -
Ruth Asawa: The Tamarind Prints Cara Manes 9781633451872
RRP: €33.32Booksplease Price: €23.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633451872Author Cara ManesFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum... -
Ruth Asawa Through Line by Kim Conaty 9780300273281
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €43.32A groundbreaking examination of how the act of drawing was a vital component of Ruth Asawa's multifaceted art "A revelatory exhibition. . . . [A] fine exhibition catalog."-Nancy Princenthal, New York... -
Ruth Asawa: A Sculpting Life by Joan Schoettler 9781455623976
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €16.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781455623976Author Joan SchoettlerFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Pelican Publishing CoPublisher... -
A Life Made by Hand: The Story of Ruth Asawa by Andrea D'Aquino
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €11.55Ruth Asawa (1926-2013) was an influential and award-winning sculptor, a beloved figure in the Bay Area art world, and a devoted activist who advocated tirelessly for arts education. This lushly... -
Ruth Asawa and the Artist-Mother at Midcentury Jordan Troeller 9780262049498
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €34.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262049498Author Jordan TroellerFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press... -
Ruth Asawa: An Artist Takes Shape by Sam Nakahira 9781947440098
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €16.55Brave, unconventional, and determined, Ruth Asawa let nothing stop her from living a life intertwined with art Renowned for her innovative wire sculptures, Japanese American artist Ruth Asawa... -
Everything She Touched: The Life of Ruth Asawa Marilyn Chase 9781797232645
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.29Now in paperback! The definitive biography and inspiring story of American sculptor Ruth Asawa. "A fitting homage to this remarkable woman." -The Wall Street JournalThis is the story of a woman who... -
The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa, Second Edition: Contours in the Air by Timothy Anglin Burgard 9780520304840
RRP: €45.22Booksplease Price: €38.07An expanded edition of the definitive book on Ruth Asawa's fascinating life and her lasting contributions to American art. The work of American artist Ruth Asawa (1926-2013) is brought into brilliant... -
A Line Can Go Anywhere: The Brilliant, Resilient Life of Artist Ruth Asawa by Caroline McAlister 9781250310378
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €15.78Growing up on a dusty farm in Southern California, Ruth Aiko Asawa lived between two worlds. She was Aiko to some and Ruth to others, an invisible line she balanced on every day. But when Japan... -
Test Piece by Sheryda Warrener 9781552454497
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.08FINALIST FOR THE 2023 DOROTHY LIVESAY POETRY PRIZEWays of Seeing meets Mary Ruefle in these visual-art-inflected poems Though they started from Sheryda Warrener's impulse to see herself more... -
Black Mountain Poems by Jonathan C. Creasy 9780811228978
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.55Black Mountain College had an explosive influence on American poetry, music, art, craft, dance, and thought; it's hard to imagine any other institution that was so utopian, rebellious, and... -
Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957 by Helen Molesworth 9780300211917
RRP: €77.35Booksplease Price: €65.75A dynamic new look at the legendary college that was a major incubator of the arts in midcentury America In 1933, John Rice founded Black Mountain College in North Carolina as an experiment in making... -
She Heard the Birds: The Story of Florence Merriam Bailey by Andrea D'Aquino 9781648960505
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €15.35She Heard the Birds tells the story of pioneering birder and activist Florence Merriam Bailey, whose compassionate approach to nature influenced modern bird-watching and inspired a lasting sense of... -
Feminist Subjectivities in Fiber Art and Craft: Shadows of Affect by John Corso Esquivel
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €45.21This book interprets the fiber art and craft-inspired sculpture by eight US and Latin American women artists whose works incite embodied affective experience. Grounded in the work of Gilles Deleuze... -
The Rose: A Circular Genealogy of Collage 9798218534264
RRP: €49.98Booksplease Price: €34.97This lush volume by Justine Kurland reconfigures the history of collage through the work of 44 artists, from Ruth Asawa to Deborah Roberts With a sprawling, loose interpretation of collage's past... -
Designing San Francisco: Art, Land, and Urban Renewal in the City by the Bay by Alison Isenberg 9780691172545
RRP: €45.22Booksplease Price: €39.02A major new urban history of the design and development of postwar San Francisco Designing San Francisco is the untold story of the formative postwar decades when U.S. cities took their modern shape... -
Hannah Wilke: Art for Life's Sake by Tamara Schenkenberg
RRP: €65.45Booksplease Price: €54.50A richly illustrated exploration of Hannah Wilke's provocative art and trailblazing feminismOne of the most groundbreaking artists to emerge in American art in the 1960s, Hannah Wilke consistently... -
Golden Gate Park, An A to Z Adventure by Marta Lindsey 9781513263014
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.08Explore California's most visited city park in this A-to-Z adventure! From A for Artist Ruth Asawa's hanging wire creations in the de Young Museum to Z for the Zebra on the carousel in the Koret... -
Women Artists in Midcentury America: A History in Ten Exhibitions by Daniel Belasco 9781789148435
RRP: €34.51Booksplease Price: €30.79In Women Artists in Midcentury America, readers embark on a journey spanning two decades, delving into the evolving social and artistic landscapes through the lens of all-women exhibitions. These... -
Adaline Kent: The Click of Authenticity Aspara Diquinzio 9780847899005
RRP: €59.50Booksplease Price: €43.71This beautifully produced volume celebrates the life and career of Adaline Kent (1900 1957), a member of one of the Bay Area s most productive and innovative midcentury artistic groups. Kent is... -
Please Wait by the Coat Room: Essays on Art, Race, And Culture John Yau 9781574232615
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €18.02Far-ranging and thought-provoking essays on the relation of art and ethnic identity.This first collection by award-winning author John Yau, drawn from decades of work, includes essays about Black,... -
The World Atlas of Public Art Andrew Wasserman 9780300272581
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €36.58Essential reading for anyone interested in art, community, and the built environment A towering abstract steel sculpture in the middle of a traffic island in Spoleto, Italy. Soaring vertical gardens... -
Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction by Lynne Cooke 9780226827292
RRP: €59.50Booksplease Price: €49.27Richly illustrated volume exploring the inseparable histories of modernist abstraction and twentieth-century textiles. Published on the occasion of an exhibition curated by Lynne Cooke, Woven... -
San Francisco: The Golden Years 1930-1960 Michael Duncan 9783777444697
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €33.80This volume details the extraordinary development of the Bay Area art scene from 1930 to 1960. A great museum director, enlightened patron, and brilliant art school helped create an environment to... -
Open Questions: Thirty Years of Writing about Art by Helen Molesworth 9781838666057
RRP: €35.64Booksplease Price: €24.68'Molesworth remains a rare breed: a curator who can actually write.' - Art in America An illustrated reader featuring a collection of essays from trailblazing curator and writer Helen Molesworth -... -
The Farm at Black Mountain College by David Silver 9781954957114
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €26.33A record of the rise and fall of the BMC farm that foregrounds the voices of a new cast of characters Black Mountain College (BMC) was a wellspring of 20th-century creative unorthodoxy. From its... -
50 Women Sculptors Dr Joanna Sperryn-Jones 9780993220777
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €25.05How many women sculptors can you name? This book will help you to understand the work and lives of dozens of women sculptors - significant artists from the past as well as those working in the... -
Anni & Josef Albers: Equal and Unequal by Nicholas Fox Weber
RRP: €119.00Booksplease Price: €79.03A spectacular and unprecedented visual biography of the leading pioneers and protagonists of modern art and design Josef - painter, designer, and teacher - and Anni Albers - textile artist and... -
The American Art Book Phaidon Editors 9781837290192
RRP: €71.34Booksplease Price: €49.73The groundbreaking survey, showcasing 500 of the greatest American artists, now updated in an essential new edition 'A lavish glimpse not only into American Art, but into the history of the century... -
Iconic Artists: A Celebration of the World's Extraordinary Artists David Lee Csicsko 9781951963217
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €15.68Iconic Artists highlights the origin and contributions of some of the world's most remarkable and gifted artists throughout history. Bold, whimsical illustrations by David Lee Csicsko along with... -
Rip Tales: Jay Defeo's Estocada and Other Pieces by Jordan Stein
RRP: €26.78Booksplease Price: €19.21On the life and afterlives of Jay DeFeo's Estocada, a work created in the shadow of The Rose In 1965, Jay DeFeo (1929-89) was evicted from her San Francisco apartment, along with the 2,000-pound... -
Tree: Exploring the Arboreal World Phaidon Editors 9781838667795
RRP: €53.49Booksplease Price: €38.15Winner of the Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries 2025 Award of Excellence in Series As seen in The Guardian, Harper's Bazaar, and Wall Street Journal'It's no secret that I adore trees... -
Noah Davis: In Detail Helen Molesworth 9781644230763
RRP: €77.35Booksplease Price: €51.59Designed as a companion to the hugely successful monograph Noah Davis, this volume offers further insight into the impact and legacy of the revolutionary Los Angeles artist and activist. ---------- ... -
Hilma af Klint: Tree of Knowledge Hilma af Klint 9781644230848
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €36.95"Revelatory and sublime...Her work remains conceptually open enough for viewers to draw their own conclusions, insert their own meaning and feel transported to other glorious worlds." -The New York...