Article: Review: Eva Hesse: Little marvels

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 ...

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