EVA HESSE 1965.

ROSEN, Barry [Ed.].

ISBN 10: 0300196652 / ISBN 13: 9780300196658

Published by Yale University Press, New Haven And London, 2013

About this Item

4to. pp: 239. First edition. Original publisher's yellow cloth boards with white lettering at front and spine in original publisher's photo-illustrated dust jacket. Copiously illustrated throughout in black and white and colour. Published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Eva Hesse 1965' at Hauser & Wirth in London, 30 January - 9 March 2013. Heavy book, may require an additional postage charge. ISBN: 9780300196658 Single small mark to front cover. Otherwise colourful, bright, internally and externally clean copy. Fine in near fine dust jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: EVA HESSE 1965.
• Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven And London
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300196652
• ISBN 13: 9780300196658
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

About this title

Synopsis

In 1964 the industrialist Friedrich Arnhard Scheidt invited Eva Hesse (1936–1970) and her husband, Tom Doyle, to a residency in Kettwig an der Ruhr, Germany. The following fifteen months marked a significant transformation in Hesse’s practice. The artist’s studio space was located in an abandoned textile factory that contained machine parts, tools, and materials that served as inspiration for her complex, linear mechanical drawings and paintings. In 1965 Hesse expanded on this theme and began using objects found in the factory and papier-mâché to produce a series of fourteen vibrantly colored reliefs that venture into three-dimensional space with such materials as wood, metal, and cord protruding from the picture plane.

With dynamic new scholarship and previously unpublished illustrations, Eva Hesse 1965 highlights key drawings, paintings, and reliefs from this pivotal time and demonstrates how the artist was able to rethink her approach to color, materials, and dimensional space and begin moving toward sculpture, preparing herself for the momentous strides that she would take upon her return to New York.

About the Author

Barry Rosen is a curatorial consultant in New York City.