Eva Hesse was an American sculptor identified within the post-minimalist current, a pioneer in the use of materials such as latex, fiberglass or plastic. Hesse was just 34 years old when a brain tumor abruptly ended her work and her life. However, her painting and her sculpture have been influential far beyond her initial impact on the art world of the late 1960s and early 1970s.

In this book, Alias presents the reissue and translation into Spanish of Lucy Lippard's historic work originally published in 1976 about her dear friend Eva Hesse. An intimate and inspiring tour for any reader, as it allows them to enter the mind of the artist with empathy, making it possible to enjoy the close link between her life and her art. Lippard gives us an overview of each stage of Hesse's personal and artistic process; her years as a painter, her time at art school, her first experiments with sculpture and of course her great concern to question her experience as a woman in art and the repercussions of that condition on the her work. Lucy Lippard's Eva Hesse present a comprehensive portrait of the life and work of this complex and captivating artist.

“Lucy Lippard has constructed an eloquent and sensitive portrait of Eva Hesse, combining Hesse's journals and her art with critical analysis. This is a highly memorable book about an important and talented artist, who lives on in the work of new generations." –Ida Applebroog

–“The only way to write about Hesse was to walk that thin and dangerous line between art and life: to emulate, in other words, the “edge” on which she herself claimed to walk.”

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