Allen Memorial Art Museum, author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79092629
Title:
Eva Hesse : Oberlin drawings : drawings in the collection of the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College / contributions by Briony Fer, Gioia Timpanelli, Manuela Ammer, Jörg Daur, Andrea Gyorody ; edited by Barry Rosen.
Issued in connection with an exhibition held 2019-2020 at Museum Wiesbaden; mumok, Vienna; Hauser & Wirth New York; and the Allen Memorial Art Museum. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Preface / Helen Hesse Charash -- Foreword / Andria Derstine -- Doing things on paper / Briony Fer -- Woodstock paintings / Gioia Timpanelli -- Plates -- No Title, 1964 / Manuela Ammer -- No Title, 1964 / Jörg Daur -- No Title, 1960 / Andrea Gyorody -- Deutsche Übersetzungen.
Summary:
This monumental tome contains the entirety of the important German artist's drawings held in the collection of the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio. The AMAM was the first museum to purchase a sculpture by Hesse, Laocoon, in 1970. In gratitude for its recognition of Hesse's work, and following the artist's untimely death, her sister Helen Hesse Charash generously donated the artist's notebooks, diaries, sketchbooks, photographs and letters to the museum. Hesse's drawings played a crucial role played in her work, which in turn gave way to an array of highly innovative techniques and styles that today still defy classification. As she commented in 1970: "I had a great deal of difficulty with painting but never with drawing ... the translation or transference to a large scale and in painting was always tedious.... So I started working in relief and with line." Hesse's custom of introducing sculptural materials into drawing and painting continues to influence artmaking today. Exhibition: Musuem Wiesbaden, Germany (15.05.-23.06.2019) / mumok, Vienna, Austria (16.11.2019-16.02.2020) / Hauser & Wirth, New York, USA (2020) / Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, USA (2020).
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