Eva Hesse - Couverture rigide

Lippard, Lucy R.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0814749712 ISBN 13 : 9780814749715

Editeur : New York University Press, 1976

Synopsis

Combines a biography of the American painter-sculptor who died at thirty-four with a critical study of her work, all illustrated by photographers of Hesse's controversial and influential works

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

As Lippard points out, Hesse's 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 Hesse's 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.

Biographie de l'auteur

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 .

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New York University Press
• Date d'édition: 1976
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0814749712
• ISBN 13: 9780814749715
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 249
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible