The previously unpublished diaries of pioneering German-born American artist Eva Hesse offer an intimate portrait of the personal and artistic challenges, and triumphs, of an extraordinary artist whose career was curtailed by her untimely death. The diaries – which begin in 1955 – describe Hesse’s time at Yale University, a sojourn in
This guest post from Kirsten Swenson conjures a 1960s moment in art both through specific objects that were created then – and continue to exist today – and through a masterful evocation of the ethos that animated a group of artists working at that time. For more, do read her
Among our March releases this year is an enchanting book entitled Converging Lines: Eva Hesse and Sol LeWitt, edited by Veronica Roberts and including essays by Lucy R. Lippard, Veronica Roberts, and Kirsten Swenson. The book celebrates the close friendship that Hesse and LeWitt formed between the late 1950s and
Kirsten Swenson, a contributor to the new book, Eva Hesse 1965, edited by Barry Rosen, writes here on the artist’s important transitions beginning in the last five years of her short life, as Hesse changed media from drawing and painting to sculpting the works for which she is so widely known.
Congratulations to Elisabeth Sussman and Fred Wasserman, authors of Eva Hesse: Sculpture, which is a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in the Visual Arts category. Each year, the National Jewish Book Awards honor some of the best and most exciting authors in the field of Jewish literature. After
“I would like the work to be non-work….It is my main concern to go beyond what I know and what I can know.” – Eva Hesse The work of Eva Hesse (1936-1970), one of the greatest American artists of the 1960s, continues to inspire and to endure in large part