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Abstract Erotic: Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse and Alice Adams

Abstract Erotic: Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse and Alice Adams

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Availability:In StockContributor:Jo Applin (Editor), Julia Bryan-Wilson (With), Briony Fer (With)Publish date:10/28/2025Pages:128

Language:EnglishPublisher:Paul Holberton PublishingISBN-13:9781913645809ISBN-10:1913645800UPC:9781913645809Book Category:ArtBook Subcategory:Women Artists, American, HistoryBook Topic:20th & 21st CenturySize:10.09 x 8.55 x 0.41 inchesWeight:1.0913Product ID:SCQ7EXPJBV

This ambitious new catalogue highlights the erotic and playful sculpture of Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, and Alice Adams, foregrounding their shared commitment to using abstract form to ask important questions about fluid sexuality, bodies, and humour.

In 1966, the groundbreaking exhibition Eccentric Abstraction, held at the Fischbach Gallery in New York, launched the careers of Bourgeois, Hesse, and Adams. It would profoundly shape the language and legacy of postwar American sculpture. This book returns us to that pivotal moment and, in bringing together these three important artists for the first time since 1966, explores the emergence of a new form of "abstract erotic" sculpture.

In this book, internationally recognised scholars of the three artists present new insights into their practice and its wider relevance to the art of the 1960s until now. By putting the work of Alice Adams in conversation with the work of established figures Bourgeois and Hesse, it aims to bring her work to the attention of a wider public.

Published by Paul Holberton Publishing

Exhibition Schedule:

The Courtauld Gallery, London
(20 June-14 September 2025)

Language:EnglishPublisher:Paul Holberton PublishingISBN-13:9781913645809ISBN-10:1913645800UPC:9781913645809Book Category:ArtBook Subcategory:Women Artists, American, HistoryBook Topic:20th & 21st CenturySize:10.09 x 8.55 x 0.41 inchesWeight:1.0913Product ID:SCQ7EXPJBV

Jo Applin is Walter H. Annenberg Professor in the History of Art at The Courtauld Institute of Art and the author of several books, including Eccentric Objects: Rethinking Sculpture in 1960s America.

Julia Bryan-Wilson is Professor of Contemporary Art and LGBTQ+ Theory at Columbia University and the author of several books.

Briony Fer is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at UCL and curator of exhibitions by Eva Hesse, Louise Bourgeois, and others.

Lucy R. Lippard, author of the groundbreaking monograph Eva Hesse (1976), is an American activist, feminist, art critic, and curator noted for her many articles and books on contemporary art.

Mignon Nixon is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art, UCL, and the author of Fantastic Reality: Louise Bourgeois and a Story of Modern Art.

Publisher: Paul Holberton Publishing

Contributor(s)

Jo Applin (Editor), Julia Bryan-Wilson (With), Briony Fer (With)

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This ambitious new catalogue highlights the erotic and playful sculpture of Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, and Alice Adams, foregrounding their shared commitment to using abstract form to ask important questions about fluid sexuality, bodies, and humour.

In 1966, the groundbreaking exhibition Eccentric Abstraction, held at the Fischbach Gallery in New York, launched the careers of Bourgeois, Hesse, and Adams. It would profoundly shape the language and legacy of postwar American sculpture. This book returns us to that pivotal moment and, in bringing together these three important artists for the first time since 1966, explores the emergence of a new form of "abstract erotic" sculpture.

In this book, internationally recognised scholars of the three artists present new insights into their practice and its wider relevance to the art of the 1960s until now. By putting the work of Alice Adams in conversation with the work of established figures Bourgeois and Hesse, it aims to bring her work to the attention of a wider public.

Published by Paul Holberton Publishing

Exhibition Schedule:

The Courtauld Gallery, London
(20 June-14 September 2025)

Jo Applin is Walter H. Annenberg Professor in the History of Art at The Courtauld Institute of Art and the author of several books, including Eccentric Objects: Rethinking Sculpture in 1960s America.

Julia Bryan-Wilson is Professor of Contemporary Art and LGBTQ+ Theory at Columbia University and the author of several books.

Briony Fer is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at UCL and curator of exhibitions by Eva Hesse, Louise Bourgeois, and others.

Lucy R. Lippard, author of the groundbreaking monograph Eva Hesse (1976), is an American activist, feminist, art critic, and curator noted for her many articles and books on contemporary art.

Mignon Nixon is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art, UCL, and the author of Fantastic Reality: Louise Bourgeois and a Story of Modern Art.

Publisher: Paul Holberton Publishing

Contributor(s)

Jo Applin (Editor), Julia Bryan-Wilson (With), Briony Fer (With)

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