Purity and geometry, knotted and explosive: two approaches to feminist art from the early 1970s.
A-Level: Pop 3D objects
This sculpture was hanging in the artist’s studio at the time of her death; it can be hung in numerous ways.
Eva Hesse, Untitled (Rope Piece)
Women’s labor and the passage of time are evoked in this sculpture constructed of organic materials.
Jackie Winsor, #1 Rope
Her friends were into high conceptualism, but Hesse’s own approach is more playful, bodily, and feminist.
Eva Hesse, Untitled
Oldenburg’s wonderfully floppy, sloppy cake is filthy, humorous, and not at all edible.
Claes Oldenburg, Floor Cake
This sculpture, installed on the Yale campus during Vietnam War protests, was never meant to be permanent.