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Abstract Erotic : Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse and Alice Adams - Jo Applin

Abstract Erotic

Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse and Alice Adams

By: Jo Applin (Editor), Julia Bryan-Wilson (As told to), Briony Fer (As told to), Alexandra Gerstein (As told to), Lucy R. Lippard (As told to)

Paperback | 5 October 2025 | Edition Number 1

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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.

It accompanies a major exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery. In 1966, the groundbreaking exhibition Eccentric Abstraction, held at the Fischbach Gallery, in New York, launched the career of Bourgeois, Hesse and Adams. It would profoundly shape the language and legacy of post-war American sculpture. This book returns us to this 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.

Abstract Erotic brings together a series of internationally recognised scholars of the three artists, presenting 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.

The Courtauld Gallery, London

20 Jun – 14 Sept 2025

Published by Paul Holberton Publishing

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