The exhibition foregrounds their shared commitment to using humour and abstract form to ask important questions about sexuality and bodies. The influential critic and curator Lucy Lippard dubbed this kind of work 'abstract erotic', and in 1966, Bourgeois, Hesse, and Adams were the only women artists included in Lippard's ground-breaking.. The Courtauld's latest exhibition, Abstract Erotic, may only span two rooms, but it brings together an extraordinary trio of artists whose work still ripples with energy. Featuring Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, and Alice Adams, the show revisits a moment of radical material exploration and sensuous abstraction that reshaped the language of sculpture in the 1960s. Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010.
This new exhibition takes Lippard's term "abstract erotic" as its reference point and shows the work of the three women - Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010), Eva Hesse (1936-70) and Alice Adams (b1930) - all working with new materials and developing a visual vocabulary unlike anything that had been seen before.. Discover beautiful original oil paintings in every style. From landscapes to portraiture, transform your home with stunning fine art paintings direct from the best emerging artists. Fuel your imagination with an abstract piece. Shop nude and erotic works inspired by the fluidity of the human form.