In 1960 Eva Hesse (1936-1970) created an unusual group of oil paintings. Contrary to scholarship, which suggests that these works represent a form of self-deprecation, this book seeks to consider these 'spectre' paintings as manifestations of a private, haunted interiority in the context of the artist's burgeoning maturity.

Issued in connection with an exhibition held Sept. 25, 2010-Jan. 3, 2011, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Jan. 28-May 22, 2011, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, and Sept. 16, 2011-Jan. 8, 2012, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum, New York.