Eva Hesse drawing / edited by Catherine de Zegher.
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TextPublication details: New York : The Drawing Center ; New Haven : Yale University Press, 2006.Description: 340 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cmISBN: - 0300116187 (hbk)
- 9780300116182 (hbk)
- 741.092 HES
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard Loan | LSAD Library Main Collection | 741.092 HES (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Checked out | 12/09/2023 | 39002100379248 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Eva Hesse (1936--1970) was a highly experimental artist who continually challenged the conventions of her time. For Hesse, drawing played a unique role, providing the nexus between her works in all media. Eva Hesse Drawing is the first book to explore her drawing process, following her work from drawing to painting and sculpture, and always back to drawing. The book features important, recently rediscovered "working drawings," providing an intimate look at Hesse's everyday practice and methodology.
An accomplished draftswoman, Hesse began to develop her wandering, tentative line while studying at Yale University in the late 1950s. Her early 1960s works on paper engaged with visual vocabularies from geometry to biomorphic abstraction. In 1965, Hesse combined her tactile sensibility for materials with her stringlike line to achieve a breakthrough: her astonishing reliefs, which began to bridge the space between two and three dimensions. Balancing the disembodiment of line with its intensified materialization, Hesse went on to develop one of the most innovative oeuvres of the twentieth century, anticipating the hybridization of media and crossing borderlines linking one impossible space to another.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Eva Hesse Drawing, organized by The Drawing Center, New York (May 6-July 15, 2006) and The Menil Collection, Houston (February 3-April 23, 2006); Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (August 6-October 28, 2006); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (November 12, 2006-February 18, 2007). Curated by Catherine de Zegher and Elisabeth Sussman.
Includes bibliographical references.
Acknowledgements / Josef Helfenstein and Catherine de Zegher -- Child drawing / Mignon Nixon -- Drawing as binding/bandage/bondage or Eva Hesse caught in the triangle of process/content/materiality / Catherine de Zegher -- Hess\'e endgame,e: facing the diagram / Benjamin H.D. Buchloh -- Works on paper/works in the papers / Elisabeth Sussman -- Gaze-and-touching the not enough mother / Bracha L. Ettinger -- Eva Hesse\'s turn: rotations around the circle drawings / Kathryn A. Tuma -- Sculpture as sample / Briony Fer -- The life of language: how Hesse named her work / Anne M. Wagner.