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Eva Hesse

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Eva Hesse explores the pioneering work of the influential artist known for her process-based art that deeply impacted minimalist artists of the 1960s. Utilising industrial materials like latex and fibreglass, Hesse created pieces with a unique psychic and physical intensity. The book examines critical discourse surrounding her work since the 1992 Yale retrospective and coincides with a major exhibition by the San Francisco Museum of Art and the Wiesbaden Museum. It includes a 1970 interview by Cindy Nemser, a conversation between Mel Bochner and Joan Simon, and essays by leading scholars such as Briony Fer and Rosalind Krauss.
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A critical primer on the work of artist Eva Hesse.

The exhibition will be at the Tate Modern, London in November 2002.

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Eva Hesse's distinctive process-based art exerted a powerful influence on minimalist artists of the 1960s and continues to inspire artists. Using industrial materials such as latex and fibreglass, she exploited their flexibility to produce works with an unsettling psychic and corporeal resonance.

Hesse, who was born in Germany in 1936 and raised in New York City, died of cancer in New York in 1970. This text focuses on the body of criticism that has developed since the last major retrospective of Hesse's work, at the Yale University Art Gallery in 1992.

The book's publication coincides with a major exhibition organised jointly by the San Francisco Museum of Art and the Wiesbaden Museum. Eva Hesse contains a 1970 interview by Cindy Nemser, a discussion between Mel Bochner and Joan Simon, and essays by Briony Fer, Rosalind Krauss, Mignon Nixon, and Anne M. Wagner.

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  • Eva Hesse
    Eva Hesse's distinctive process-based art exerted a powerful influence on minimalist artists of the 1960s and continues to inspire artists. Using industrial materials such as latex and fibreglass, she exploited their flexibility to produce works with an unsettling psychic and corporeal resonance. Hesse, who was born in Germany in 1936 and raised in New York City, died of cancer in...
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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780262640497

Publisher: MIT Press Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 08 November 2002

Country: United States

Imprint: MIT Press

Illustration: 61 b&w illus.

Contributors:

  • Edited by Mignon Nixon

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 11.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 340g

Pages: 234

About the Author

Mignon Nixon is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at University College London and an editor of October magazine. She is the author of Fantastic Reality- Louise Bourgeois and a Story of Modern Art and the editor of a previous October Files volume, Eva Hesse (both published by the MIT Press).

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