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What were Eva Hesse's sculptures like?

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Hesse's sculpture displays an anti-formalism that developed in the late 1960s in reaction against conventional geometric constructivism. Using such materials as latex, fiberglass, wire, and rope, she built numerous repeating series of large and eccentric forms. These were grouped irregularly over the floor or hung from the ceiling.

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