Ruth Asawa and the Artist-Mother at Mid-Century candles Natalie Lira

Natalie Lira

Dashwood Books

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before returning to New York 20 years later

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Ruth Asawa and the Artist-Mother at Mid-Century candles Natalie LiraFor most of modern history, to be an artist and a mother was to embody a contradiction in terms. This awful dichotomy, as painter Alice Neel put it, pitted artmaking against caretaking and argued that the best art was made at the expense of family and futurity. But in San Francisco in the 1950s and 1960s, a group of artists gathered around Ruth Asawa (19262013) began to reject this dominant narrative. In Ruth Asawa and the Artist Mother at Midcentury,