This ambitious new catalogue highlights the erotic and playful sculpture of Louise
\nBourgeois, Eva Hesse and Alice Adams, foregrounding their shared commitment
\nto using abstract form to ask important questions about fluid sexuality, bodies and
\nhumour. It accompanies a major exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery.
\nIn 1966, the groundbreaking exhibition Eccentric Abstraction, held at the Fischbach
\nGallery, New York, launched the career of Bourgeois, Hesse and Adams. It would
\nprofoundly shape the language and legacy of post-war American sculpture. This
\nbook returns us to this pivotal moment and, in bringing together these three
\nimportant artists for the first time since 1966, explores the emergence of a new
\nform of ‘abstract erotic’ sculpture.
\nAbstract Erotic brings together a series of internationally recognised scholars of
\nthe three artists, presenting new insights into their practice, and its wider relevance
\nto the art of the 1960s until now. And by putting the work of Alice Adams in
\nconversation with the work of established figures Bourgeois and Hesse, it aims to
\nbring her work to the attention of a wider public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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