{"product_id":"everything-she-touched-the-life-of-ruth-asawa-by-marilyn-chase","title":"\"Everything She Touched: The Life of Ruth Asawa\" by Marilyn Chase","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\"Everything She Touched\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e recounts the incredible life of the American sculptor Ruth Asawa.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\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.\u003c\/span\u003e In this compelling biography, author Marilyn Chase brings Asawa's story vividly to life, weaving together the voices of family, friends, teachers, and critics to offer a complex and fascinating portrait of the artist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 went on to develop her signature hanging-wire sculptures, create iconic urban installations, revolutionize arts education in her adopted hometown of San Francisco, and defy convention to nurture a multiracial family.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA richly visual volume with over 60 reproductions of Asawa's art and archival photos of her life (including portraits shot by her friend, the celebrated photographer Imogen Cunningham), and documents Asawa's transformative touch—most notably by turning wire – the material of the internment camp fences – into sculptures\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eRuth 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"a-unordered-list a-vertical\"\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover, 224 pages\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hachette","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46827088478466,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0084\/8727\/2506\/files\/IMG_8263.jpg?v=1760288829","url":"https:\/\/pittsburghmercantile.life\/products\/everything-she-touched-the-life-of-ruth-asawa-by-marilyn-chase","provider":"Pittsburgh Mercantile","version":"1.0","type":"link"}