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Eva Hesse
Hesse, Eva
Hesse, Eva (
b Hamburg, 11 Jan. 1936;
d New York, 29 May 1970). German-born American sculptor. Her family fled the Nazis, settling in New York in 1939, and she became a US citizen in 1945. She studied at various art schools in New York, then at Yale University under Josef
Albers, graduating in 1959. She did not take up sculpture until 1964, so her career lasted only six years, before her early death from a brain tumour. However, in that time she gained a high reputation as an exponent of ‘Eccentric Abstraction’ (the title of an exhibition in which her work was included at the Fischbach Gallery, New York, in 1966, organized by her friend the art critic Lucy Lippard (1937– ), who is particularly known for her writings on
Conceptual art and
Feminist art). Hesse is sometimes described as a
Minimalist, but her work was too restlessly experimental to fit neatly into any category. It often shared with Minimal art the use of repeated units and severely limited colour, but she made inventive use of materials (including fibreglass, wood, wire, various fabrics, and rubber tubing), and her work is far from the emotional reserve associated with Minimalism; her forms are often organic and sexually suggestive.
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Eva Hesse.('not painting, not sculpture')(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Textile; 9/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; Eva Hesse. Tate Modern, London November 13 2002...Encounter" at the conference Encountering Eva Hesse at Tate Modern. Initiated by Dr Vanessa...provided a forum for discussion of the work of Eva Hesse in the context of a new exhibition originated...
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Eva Hesse
Magazine article from: Artforum; 10/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; Eva Hesse THE JEWISH MUSEUM/THE DRAWING CENTER Eva Hesse has (quite rightfully) long been established...career as their subject. In this respect, "Eva Hesse" has become as much a signifier as a proper...
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Eva Hesse: the Jewish Museum/the Drawing Center.
Magazine article from: Artforum International; 10/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; Eva Hesse has (quite rightfully) long been established...career as their subject. In this respect, "Eva Hesse" has become as much a signifier as a proper...one can't exist without the other--"Eva Hesse: Sculpture" at the Jewish Museum still...
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Drawing connections; Drawings by feminist icon Eva Hesse show the esoteric artist fusing austere minimalism and messy psychology.(SCENE)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 11/17/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...less famous, German-born sculptor Eva Hesse (1936-70) can be counted among...feminism. In a handsome new show, "Eva Hesse Drawing," Walker Art Center explores...Mary Abbe - 612-673-4431 REVIEW EVA HESSE DRAWING What: Intellectual, childlike...
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In Search of Her Own Language Eva Hesse Show San Francisco Museum of Modern Art February 2-May 19, 2002
Magazine article from: Studies in Gender and Sexuality; 10/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...This article discusses the work of Eva Hesse, a young German minimalist artist...the first major retrospective of Eva Hesse's work in the United States in...could not understand nor get close to Eva Hesse's work if I kept trying to squeeze...
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Eva Hesse: Sculpture/Gustav Klimt: Five Paintings From the Collection of Ferdinand and Adele Bloch-Bauer
Magazine article from: The Village Voice; 8/30/2006; ; 700+ words
; Eva Hesse: Sculpture Jewish Museum 1109 Fifth Avenue...and Glitter A late summer afternoon with Hesse and Klimt In 1967, Walter Brooke famously...soon-to-be-famous sculptor named Eva Hesse saw The Graduate that year, she would shortly...
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Heartache Amid Abstraction; At the Hirshhorn, the Pained Sculptures of Eva Hesse
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 10/25/1992; ; 700+ words
; Eva Hesse (1936-1970) changed the possibilities...Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Before Eva Hesse, we barely understood the maleness encasing...blatant, and blatancy is seldom sensed in Eva Hesse's art. Instead it often calls to mind...
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Vital parts. (Eva Hesse, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.)
Magazine article from: Art in America; 2/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...subject of a major retrospective, Eva Hesse combined an innovative approach to...only now being fully appreciated. Eva Hesse would have been 56 this year. Most...from, Minimalism. By contrast, in Eva Hesse's sculpture one often feels that...
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Eva Hesse: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. (Reviews).
Magazine article from: Artforum International; 5/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; Eva Hesse remains a strangely undecidable figure...debate rests, no doubt, on the fact of Hesse's too brief life and the broken record...terms of victimhood and neurosis, even as Hesse was achieving critical success with her art...
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Urbane organic: a retrospective recalls the short, productive career of Eva Hesse, where Surrealism met Minimalism.
Magazine article from: New York; 5/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; IN 1968, the sculptor Eva Hesse (1936-1970) began a piece called...alive. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Eva Hesse: Sculpture," organized by Fred...now inescapable--and piercing. EVA HESSE, SCULPTURE JEWISH MUSEUM. THROUGH...
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Eva Hesse
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Eva Hesse The sculptor Eva Hesse (1936-1970) pioneered the use of plastic and other nontraditional...absurdity of relationships within contradictory systems. Although Eva Hesse worked as a sculptor for only five years before her untimely death...
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Hesse, Eva
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
Hesse, Eva (1936–1970). German-born American sculptor. Her family...friend Lucy Lippard , at the Fischbach Gallery, New York, in 1966). Hesse is sometimes described as a Minimalist, but her work was too restlessly...
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Post-Minimalism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
...dominant avant-garde trend of the 1960s); Pincus-Witten first used it in print in an article entitled ‘ Eva Hesse : Post-Minimalism into Sublime’ in the November 1971 issue of Artforum . It generally implies a reaction...
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Lippard, Lucy
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
...Different War: Vietnam in Art (1990), Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America (1992), and monographs on Eva Hesse (1976) and Ad Reinhardt (1981). From 1987 to 1994 she was adjunct professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder...
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Abstract Expressionism
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History
...Abstract Expressionism remained a major point of departure for artistic and critical explorations, from the process art of Eva Hesse (1936–1970) to the 1980s movement of Neo‐Expressionism. See also Fifties, The ; Painting...
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