Eva Hesse

Eva Hesse (January 11, 1936 – May 29, 1970) was a German-born American sculptor, known for her pioneering work in materials such as latex, fiberglass, and plastics. Quotes Art and work and art and life are very connected and my whole life has been absurd. There isn't a thing in my life that has happened that hasn't been extreme - personal health, family, economic situations...absurdity is the key word... Art since 1940, strategies of being, Jonathan Fineberg, copyright Prentice Hall, Inc. 1995. 0 13 045469 9 I think the circle is very abstract. I could make up stories of what the circle means to men, but I don't know if it is that conscious. I think it was a form, a vehicle. I don't think I had a sexual anthropomorphic, or geometric meaning. It wasn't a breast and it wasn't a circle representing life and eternity....I remember always working with contradiction and contradictory forms which is my idea also in life. The whole absurdity of life, everything for me has always been opposite. Nothing has ever been in the middle. When I gave you my autobiography, my life never had anything normal or in the center. It was always extremes. Johnson Ellen Halda American Artists on Art: From 1940 to 1980 August 1, 1982 Westview Press 0064301125 p. 192 External links Category:Sculptors Category:Artists from the United States Category:People from Hamburg Category:1970 deaths Category:Jews from Germany Category:Jews from the United States Category:Immigrants to the United States Category:1936 births Category:Women from the United States