Eva Hesse

Eva Hesse, undated.

Eva Hesse, c.1963. Photo: Barbara Brown.

Eva Hesse (11 January 1936, Hamburg – 29 May 1970, New York City) was a German-born American sculptor known for her pioneering work in materials such as latex, fiberglass, and plastics. She is one of the artists who ushered in the postminimal art movement in the 1960s.

Catalogues

• Eva Hesse: Sculpture, ed. Bill Barrette, New York: Timken, 1989.
• Eva Hesse: A Retrospective, ed. Helen A. Cooper, New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery: Yale University Press, 1992, 253 pp.
• Eva Hesse Drawing, ed. Catherine de Zegher, New York: Drawing Center, and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006, 340 pp.
• Converging Lines: Eva Hesse and Sol Lewitt, ed. Veronica Roberts, Austin, TX: Blanton Museum of Art, and Yale University Press, 2014. With essays by Lucy R. Lippard, Veronica Roberts, and Kirsten Swenson.

Interviews

• Cindy Nemser, "Eva Hesse" [1970], in Nemser, Art Talk: Conversations with Twelve Women Artists, New York, 1975; repr., new ed., rev. & enl., New York: IconEditions, 1995, pp 172-199, HTML.

Literature

• Griselda Pollock, Vanessa Corby (eds.), Encountering Eva Hesse, Munich: Prestel, 2006.

Documentary film

• Eva Hesse, dir. Marcie Begleiter, 2016, 105 min. [1] [2]. Interview with director.

Links

• Eva Hesse Archives, Allen Memorial Art Museum