Eva Hesse by Lippard, Lucy R. Paperback

Lippard, Lucy R.

ISBN 10: 0814749720 / ISBN 13: 9780814749722

Published by New York University Press, New York, 1976

About this Item

1976; Band w r illus; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 249 pages.

Seller Inventory # 17807

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Eva Hesse by Lippard, Lucy R. Paperback
• Publisher: New York University Press, New York
• Publication Date: 1976
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0814749720
• ISBN 13: 9780814749722
• Binding: Softcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket

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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

About the Author

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 .