Eva Hesse

Lucy R. Lippard

ISBN 10: 0306804840 / ISBN 13: 9780306804847

Editore: Da Capo Books, 1992

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Eva Hesse was an artist known for her work in sculpting. Born in the 1930's in Hamburg, Germany, she was heralded as one of main inspirations for various generations of artists from the 1960's and beyond. Within Lucy Lippard's biography of Eva Hesse, it details her works from the 1950's up until her death in 1970. Starting out with Hesse's drawings during the mid fifties, Lippard then transitioned into Hesse's oil canvas' self portraits in the early 1960's. Lucy Lippard is known for writing books on various subjects, such as feminism, in addition to art and politics, as well as a novel. Her works also extend to that of street theatre, comic strips and performances. She has also curated aroun.

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• Titolo: Eva Hesse
• Editore: Da Capo Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0306804840
• ISBN 13: 9780306804847
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: Good

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Riassunto

Eva Hesse was only thirty-four when brain cancer abruptly ended her lifes work. Yet her painting and sculpture have proved influential far beyond their initial impact on the art world of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Lucy Lippards Eva Hesse combines biography and criticism, formal analysis and psychological readings, to present a complete portrait of the life and work of this complex and compelling artist. } As Lippard points out, Hesses 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 Hesses 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 increasingly apparent with the passage of time. }

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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 .