Description: A landmark survey of the wide-ranging practice of one of the twentieth century's most innovative artists
Review Quotes: "Wind your way into an artist's imagination with Ruth Asawa: Retrospective, a celebration of the modernist's six-decade career spent bending notions of surface, volume, and perception."--Vanity Fair
"Retrospective not only honours Asawa's technical mastery but also underscores the connection between her work and lived experiences. It reaffirms the power of art to transform the mundane into the astounding, leaving audiences sure of Asawa's enduring legacy."--Fruzsina Vida, Aesthetica Included in a list of "Icons, Innovators and Legacies: The Art Books That Define 2025," New Born's Planet (Romania) Recommended in Holiday Gift Guide 2025, Publishers Weekly A San Francisco Chronicle, Holiday Roundup 2025 A Top 10 choice in Publishers Weekly's Spring 2025 Fiction & Nonfiction Preview "[For] or anyone who needs a little help remembering how to find magic in the ordinary. . . . Did I mention the images? Gorgeous, and so many of them, which so fits Asawa's generous spirit."--Hyperallergic, "15 Art Books to Gift This Holiday Season" "Central to this catalog . . . are beautiful full-page images of her works, including intricate wire sculptures, bronze casts, paperfolds, drawings, and prints."--American Craft Shortlisted for the 2026 Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award, sponsored by the CAA