Eva Hesse 1965

Barry Rosen, editor

ISBN 10: 0300196652 / ISBN 13: 9780300196658

Published by Yale, 2013

About this Item

NOT FOR SALE OUTSIDE THE US. Stated first edition. Hardback quarto is near fine in bright thick yellow textured boards with white embossed print. Yellow endpapers. Jacket is clean and bright but has one small scuff mark above the "E" on front and there is a light small crease above it. 240 pages filled with full color reproductions.

Seller Inventory # RHNS575

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Eva Hesse 1965
• Publisher: Yale
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300196652
• ISBN 13: 9780300196658
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art

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With dynamic new scholarship and previously unpublished illustrations, Eva Hesse 1965 highlights key drawings, paintings, and reliefs from this pivotal time and demonstrates how the artist was able to rethink her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.