Eva Hesse / edited by Mignon Nixon ; essays and interviews by Cindy Nemser ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nixon, Mignon.

Nemser, Cindy.

Series:

October files ; 3.

October files ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hesse, Eva, 1936-1970--Criticism and interpretation.

Hesse, Eva.

Hesse, Eva, 1936-1970.

Minimal art--United States.

Minimal art.

Criticism and interpretation.

United States.

Physical Description:

222 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2002]

Summary:

Eva Hesse's distinctive process-based art exerted a powerful influence on minimalist artists of the 1960s and continues to inspire artists today. Using industrial materials such as latex and fiberglass, 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 1970. Eva Hesse 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 organized 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.

Contents:

A Conversation with Eva Hesse (1970) / Cindy Nemser 1

Eva Hesse: Contingent (1979) / Rosalind Krauss 27

About Eva Hesse: Mel Bochner Interviewed by Joan Simon (1992) / Mel Bochner 35

Hesse's Desiring Machines (1993) / Rosalind Krauss 47

Bordering on Blank: Eva Hesse and Minimalism (1994) / Briony Fer 57

Another Hesse (1996) / Anne M. Wagner 87

Ringaround Arosie: 2 in 1 (2002) / Mignon Nixon 195.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0262140802

026264049X

OCLC:

49936131