Body High: Death, Drugs, and Eva Hesse by Donnelly, Ryann
Body High: Death, Drugs, and Eva Hesse by Donnelly, Ryann

Body High: Death, Drugs, and Eva Hesse

How do we medicate ourselves, and why can't we cure the people we love? In Body High,...
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Author: Ryann Donnelly
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Body High: Death, Drugs, and Eva Hesse by Donnelly, Ryann

Body High: Death, Drugs, and Eva Hesse

$38.69
Body High: Death, Drugs, and Eva Hesse by Donnelly, Ryann

Body High: Death, Drugs, and Eva Hesse

$38.69
Author: Ryann Donnelly
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
How do we medicate ourselves, and why can't we cure the people we love? In Body High, encounters with lurid bodily sculptures from the '60s offer remedies to the author's own illness and malaise.

In Body High, the introduction to lurid sculptural practices from the 1960s and the author's own experience in proximity to opiate use will be used to offer a surreal and unsettling, yet seductive landscape where wider universal themes are explored: How do we medicate ourselves, and why can't we cure the people we love?

Dripping latex and collapsed rubber tubes were among the provocative materials that signaled an aesthetic turn in European and American sculptural practices starting in the late 1960s. Objects became corporeal: they responded to gravity in ways suggestive of exhaustion, offered sensual form, and confronted viewers with the ephemeral realities of our bodies through viscosity and deterioration. 

This book analyses the objects by women within that movement, which explored maternity and mortality to capture the body under or after medical care. It argues that in these works, art-making served as a therapeutic strategy to re-claim bodies being manipulated at molecular levels.

Author: Ryann Donnelly
Publisher: Repeater
Published: 04/08/2025
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
ISBN: 9781915672872

About the Author
RYANN DONNELLY is an artist and academic interested in subversiverepresentations of the body in twentieth century performance and sculpturalpractices. She holds a practice-based PhD from the Visual Cultures Departmentat Goldsmiths, University of London, and currently teaches in the Art Historydepartment at University of Sussex. Her first book, Justify My Love: Sex, Subversion, and Music Video, was released by Repeater Books in 2019.
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