pickBiography - Published in 2019. Ruth Asawa was an award-winning Japanese American sculptor and activist who advocated tirelessly for arts education. This book tells the story of this pioneering artist whose work is collected in major museums around the world.
Inspired by the world around her, Asawa saw beauty in the ordinary: the webs of spiders, wings of insects, and drops of water found in the garden on the farm where she spent her childhood.
pickThis was an incredible book, but a total sausage fest.
It gets ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ for being an inspiring, colourful, accessible, engaging volume, and for giving me a grounding in art knowledge that I didn't think possible from one book.
Art is discussed from a Eurocentric position, only ONE female artist is featured and some of the language is culturally insensitive to the modern ear, but this remains an outstanding work.
Thirsty for more now!
Educating ourselves on the history of art.
Pickles says that whilst appreciating the vitality of Rubens' work, she finds it a bit grainy and aesthetically prefers the softness in the portraiture of Raphael...
Just kidding. She's a philistine.
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Trying to read about the history of art when a wild Circlefloof appeared 😐
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