this study considers the dialogue between Eva HesseYs 1966 Laocoon (Fig. 1 and Pl. 14) and its famous namesake, the ancient marble Laocoön and His Sonsin the Vatican Museums (Fig. …
Completed in 1966, Laocoön is one of Eva Hesse’s fi rst large-scale freestanding sculptures. Constructed out of plastic tubing, rope, wire, papier-mâché, and covered with a uniform, muted …
Eva Hesse's _Laocoon_: Mitigated Antiquity and Specters in Space
The authors argue that the nearly eleven-foot-tall empty lattice draped with limp ropes ("snakes," as Hesse explicitly termed them) invokes numerous specters: the iconic suffering male body in …
Laocoön – Works – Allen Memorial Art Museum - Oberlin College
During an eighteen-month stay in Germany in 1964 with her husband, sculptor Tom Doyle, Eva Hesse turned her attention to sculpture for the first time. She returned to New York in 1965 …
EVA HESSE'S LAOCOON: MITIGATED ANTIQUITY AND SPECTERS …
2020年3月22日 · Eva Hesse (1936-1970) had encountered the ancient Laocoon and His Sons in multiple contexts before embarking on her own Laocoon in late 1965.
Crying Laocoon : the visual arts of translation - Taylor & Francis …
2020年4月20日 · The essay charts the shifting place of Laocoon as an exemplum of translation across the arts of word and image from Pliny to Clement Greenberg. It uncovers a rich history …
holds the Eva Hesse Archive of over 1300 items. Hesse came to Oberlin College as a visiting artist in 1968, and in 1970, the AMAM became the first museum to purchase a sculpture by …
On Eva Hesse - Swarthmore College
At the end of her life Hesse was beginning to feel free and strong enough to follow repetition into that area." [209] Eva Hesse, 1969 . Temporal Changes in the Quality of the Song. Robert …
Works – Eva Hesse – Artists – Allen Memorial Art Museum
That year was her first period of great productivity and achievement; her earliest significant sculptures--Laocoon, Metronomic Irregularity, Ennead, and Hang-Up--were completed during …
Eva Hesse drawing exhibit at Oberlin College shows how her art ...
2022年4月3日 · A traveling exhibition of drawings by Eva Hesse opens at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College after a two-year delay imposed by the coronavirus pandemic.