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Article: Review: Eva Hesse: Little marvels
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- September 8, 2009
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EVA HESSE: STUDIOWORK ****
FRUITMARKET, EDINBURGH
Artists can be seen as modern-day saints, which would mean that
this is an exhibition of relics worthy of veneration
WE LIKE to suppose that we are a pretty egalitarian society and
mostly a secular one, yet in the cult of celebrity we have created
an instant aristocracy as little deserving of respect for its merit
or achievement as the original ever was. If perhaps we have not yet
created new gods, we are certainly as enthusiastic about saints and
the veneration of their relics as our medieval ancestors ever were.
This has nothing to do with the sanctity of their lives but
everything to do with the powers we attribute to them and to their ...