Synopsis
As Lippard points out, Hesse s use of obsessive repetition in her works served to increase and exaggerate the absurdity she saw in her life. In many ways, her works were psychic models, as Robert Smithson has said, of a very interior person. In pioneering the use of soft materials, her sculptures betrayed her awareness of the manner in which her experience as a woman altered her art and career. Although she died before feminism affected the art world to any great extent, her major works have since become talismans for succeeding generations of women artists.Eva Hesse was designed by Hesse s friends and colleagues Sol LeWitt and Pat Stier; her sculptures, drawings, and paintings are reproduced and discussed; and the text includes numerous quotations from her diaries. First published in 1976 but long out-of-print, this classic text is both an insightful critical analysis and a tribute to an artist whose genius has become increasi
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Lucy Lippard is the author of a number of seminal works on contemporary art and artists, including Overlay: Contemporary Art and the Art of Prehistory, A Different War: Vietnam in Art , and, most recently, Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America .
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Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Softcover Edition. soft cover., clean. no tears or chips. minor bit of wear to top of spine. strong sewn binding. no markings of any sort.; 249pp., 263 illustrations, including some in color. catalogue raisonne. excerpts from hesse's diaries and writings. the author had help from hesse's family and the community of artists who knew and supported her work. where any reckoning of hesse must begin, in terms of books. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Seller Inventory # 25191
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Softcover. Quarto. Softcover. Grey illustrated wraps. 251 pp. with 263 illustrations. Illustrations cover all of her 70 sculptures and many of her drawings. In English. A discussion of her work by decades and and essay "Documentation" by Susan Ginsburg. Also includes a chronology, catalogue raisonne of the sculpture, and a bibliography. Text includes quotations from her diaries. From the back cover: "Eva Hesse, artist and sculptor, was only 34 when brain cancer abruptly ended her life's work. Yet her contribution in painting and sculpture and her influence on the art world of the late 1960's and early 1970's, especially on serious women artists, is unchallenged." VG (marker on bottom block, pages are otherwise very clean and tight). Seller Inventory # 176785
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First Edition. First edition. Softcover. 249 pages. Monograph on this German born American artist whose life was life was tragically cut short at 34 from brain cancer. Features text by Lucy Lippard. Includes a few tipped in color plates along with numerous black and white illustrations, chronology, catalogue raisonne of sculpture, a bibliography, and an index. A clean near fine copy in wrappers. Seller Inventory # 191997
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