Eva Hesse by Lippard, Lucy R - 1992-08-21

Da Capo Press, 1992-08-21. First Edition. paperback. Used: Good.

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. Contents: 1936-1959 -- 1959-1965 -- 1965-1970 -- Some critical issues -- Documentation / by Susan Ginsburg. Chronology ; Catalogue raisonne of the sculpture ; Bibliography. 249 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm. Slight shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

New York, New York: New York University Press, 1992. Softbound. VG (marker on bottom block, pages are otherwise very clean and tight). Grey illustrated wraps. 251 pp. with 263 illustrations. Illustrations cover all of her 70 sculptures and many of her drawings. In English. A discussion of her work by decades and and essay "Documentation" by Susan Ginsburg. Also includes a chronology, catalogue raisonne of the sculpture, and a bibliography. Text includes quotations from her diaries. From the back cover: "Eva Hesse, artist and sculptor, was only 34 when brain cancer abruptly ended her life's work. Yet her contribution in painting and sculpture and her influence on the art world of the late 1960's and early 1970's, especially on serious women artists, is unchallenged.