Hesse proves that powerful, emotionally charged art doesn't have to be pretty.
Hesse
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)
Her friends were into high conceptualism, but Hesse’s own approach is more playful, bodily, and feminist.
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