In 1976 Lucy Lippard published a monographic work on the artist Eva Hesse. Lucy Lippard combines biography and criticism, formal analysis and psychological readings to tell the story of the life and career of the sculptor Eva Hesse. The book was designed by Hesse’s friend and colleague, Sol LeWitt. Each of her seventy sculptures and many of her drawings are reproduced and discussed within the book. Being a long-time friend of Eva Hesse, Lucy Lippard treads a fine line between the art and the life of Eva Hesse. She writes about the achievements of Eva Hesse in both her life and her career and also about the many struggles in Hesse’s life that have had an impact on who she was as a person. Eva Hesse was born in 1936 in Germany, because of her Jewish upbringing she and her family were forced to flee from the Nazi regime in 1938 and arrived in New York in 1939. During their flee from Germany Hesse’s father kept diaries of the journey for each of the children, this was a habit Hesse took on as well later in her life. In these diaries she talked about the struggles in her life. Hesse is an American artist known for her innovative use of materials in her sculptures, such as fibreglass, latex and plastics. This innovative use of ‘soft’ materials, have become an inspiration source for a younger generation of women artists. Lippard further writes that although Hesse died before feminism affected the art world, she was well aware of the manner in which her experience as a woman altered her art and her career. In writing this important work on Eva Hesse, Lucy Lippard has tapped into her knowledge of and passion for feminism, particularly within the art world. Nowadays the book is long out-of-print, but nevertheless this classic text remains both an insightful critical analysis and a tribute to an important female artist ‘whose genius has become increasingly apparent with the passage of time.’