Encountering Eva Hesse Author:Vanessa Corby Encountering Eva Hesse Griselda Pollock and Vanessa Corby, Editors This book offers new insights into the full range of Eva Hesse's work and legacy. German-Jewish-born postminimalist painter and sculptor Eva Hesse died in 1970 at the age of 34. Her work has long been acknowledged by major museums, studied by young artists, and analyzed from a... more » feminist perspective. In this book, a team of artists, curators, and art historians examines the range of Hesse's challenging work in drawing, painting, and sculpture. The book also features full-color reproductions of her sculpturesmany too fragile to be exhibitedas well as photographs of her studio and life. This multi-faceted critique is an important contribution to our understanding of Eva Hesse. Griselda Pollock is Professor of Social and Critical Histories of Art and Director of the AHRB Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History at the University of Leeds. Vanessa Corby is a painter, art writer, and Lecturer in Visual Culture at the University of Central Lancashire.« less