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Title: Eva Hesse by Lucy R. Lippard ISBN: 0-306-80484-0 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: December, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful tribute to Groundbreaking Artist
Comment: I have this book and I love it. You are given a glimpse of the New York art scene in the 1960's and get a feeling of what it must have been like during that exciting period. In fact, it's a little scary to imagine being around during that time, kind of overwhelming. Conceptual art, pop art, Andy Warhol, the whole psychedelic hippie scene. But oddly still a man's world, for all the miniskirts and 'free love' hype. Her contemporaries were pretty much all men, and the women tended to be more like sidekicks and dilettantes. (Not to take anything away from male artists, that's just the way it was at the time.) The end of Eva's marriage, to another artist, seems almost a given once she really started to come into her own right. It must have been kind of lonely, men were probably threatened by the idea of a female artist, or maybe it was just that she didn't have time to find the right person in her short life. Also, at the time there was much less awareness of toxicity in art materials both traditional and non-traditional. I have to admit I'm fascinated by the romance of this heroic figure producing art despite the cost to her personal life and health. I don't see her as a martyr but as a brave pioneer who left us with beautiful art. Many of Eva Hess's sculptures were made using ephemeral materials but this book has pictures of them when they were new. Even if the actual sculptures don't survive, the image of them will somehow continue to survive, maybe with the help of virutal reality technology? Anyway, thank you Lucy Lippard for this informative book packed with pictures and info about Eva!
Rating: 5
Summary: Great document of crucial, endlessly fertile Hesse
Comment: Featured are reproductions even of artworks which no longer exist, and Lippard's commentary is always to the point. I don't dwell on the fact that Eva Hesse died young -- in fact, I'm not interested in the cult of personality which in my view only obscures the works themselves. But in at least three directions Hesse has given me plenty to think about and purely enjoy, and this book documents everything... maybe it slights the drawings a bit, but there's another book out there with nothing but drawings, drawings galore. The implications of what Hesse accomplished remain "mindblowing." Anyone who has only heard about her or seen one or two works needs to see what they've missed.
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Title: Eva Hesse (October Files) by Mignon Nixon ISBN: 026264049X Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 18 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Writings by Agnes Martin ISBN: 3893223266 Publisher: Cantz Pub. Date: July, 1998 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Eva Hesse by Elisabeth Sussman, James Meyer, Briony Fer, Renate Petzinger, Ann Temkin, Gioia Timpanelli ISBN: 0300091680 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $65.00 |
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Title: Agnes Martin: The Nineties and Beyond by Ned Rifkin, Edward Hirsch, The Menil Collection, Houston ISBN: 3775711651 Publisher: Hatje Cantz Publishers Pub. Date: 15 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: A History of 20th-Century Art by Bernard Blistene ISBN: 2080105647 Publisher: Flammarion Pub. Date: 15 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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