{"product_id":"body-high-death-drugs-and-eva-hesse-9781915672872","title":"Body High: Death, Drugs, and Eva Hesse","description":"\u003cb\u003eHow do we medicate ourselves, and why can't we cure the people we love? In \u003ci\u003eBody High\u003c\/i\u003e, encounters with lurid bodily sculptures from the '60s offer remedies to the author's own illness and malaise.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBody High\u003c\/i\u003e, 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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDripping 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.  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ryann Donnelly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Repeater\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/08\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.30w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781915672872","brand":"Repeater","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43834470367369,"sku":"9781915672872","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_4ba5c13d-3e29-4ff1-94f8-b44661e7a97f.jpg?v=1743487767","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/body-high-death-drugs-and-eva-hesse-9781915672872","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}