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Larger Image	Larger image may be viewed by UofL faculty, staff, and students only (log-in required using ULink username/password) at: http://echo.louisville.edu/login?url=http://vrc-web.louisville.edu/Jpegs/820/827-22.jpg
Title	Accession II.
Creator	Hesse, Eva (American sculptor, born in Germany, 1936-1970)
Date	1967
Cultural Context	American North American
Style/Period	Eccentric Abstraction Abstract (fine arts style) Minimal Modern (styles and periods)
Theme	Sculpture (visual work) Metalwork Steelwork (objects) Boxes (containers) Containers (receptacles) Cubes Avant-garde Overhead views Three-quarter views Oblique views Surfaces (object portions) Interior Interior views Exterior Exterior views Tactile values Touch Abstraction
Subject	Sculpture Abstract sculpture Abstract works Metalwork Boxes Containers Interiors
Description	"Hesse produced a series of versions of this sculpture during 1967-8. They set up an interesting dialogue with [Donald] Judd's frequent exposure of the interiors of his 'boxes'. They also respond obliquely to an iconographic tradition of internal/external and skin/hair reversals set in motion by Swiss Surrealist Meret Oppenheim's Fur Cup and Saucer (1936)." (Caption, p.150); "In 1966 [Lucy] Lippard had curated an important exhibition entitled 'Eccentric Abstraction' at New York's Fischbach Gallery, dedicated to work which addressed the tactile or the visceral rather than the cerebral. Under this rubric she particularly promoted the work of the German-born artist Eva Hesse. Familiar with Minimalist ideas through her friendship with Sol LeWitt, Hesse had recently begun exploring the underside of the movement's fetishization of unyielding surfaces and systems. In 1967, for instance, she produced two versions of Accession, consisting of perforated Minimalist cubes threaded with thousands of pieces of plastic tubing which provided them with bristling interior 'lives'." (Excerpt, pp.149-150)
Material	Galvanized steel Steel (alloy) Plastic (organic material) Tubes (object forms) Iron alloy Metal
Measurements	78 x 78 x 78 cm
Technique	Galvanizing Metalworking Sculpting
Work Type	Sculpture Steelwork (objects) Metalwork Abstract works Abstract sculpture
Repository	Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan)
Source	Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.150, fig.75)
Rights	Photograph reproduced in Hopkins courtesy: Detroit Institute of Arts. Founders Society Purchase, Friends of Modern Art Fund and Miscellaneous Gifts Fund. Photo © Detroit Institute of Arts. (79.34)
Digital Publisher	University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format	image/jpeg
Digital File Name	VRC 827-22.jpg
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