Twilights: Essays on Artists’ Late Work by Henriette Heise
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Published in May 2026 by At Last Books, this book presents the work of artist Henriette Heise. It is introduced by the publisher as follows:
Late works are messages from the edge: the edge of relevance, the edge of health, the edge of death. They face mortality or insignificance while also telling stories about persistence—about what it means to make art despite a lack of a future horizon. In an art context that is increasingly defined by precarity and crises, late works can teach us a lesson about how to keep going.
Twilights: Essays on Artists’ Late Work, edited by Henriette Heise emerged from a seminar at the National Gallery of Denmark in 2024 and features contributions from fourteen artists and art historians. Alternately elegiac, anecdotal, and theoretical, the essays consider late works by Anna Ancher, Astrid Noack, Derek Jarman, Dieter Roth, Dora Maar, Elisa Maria Boglino, Ernest Mancoba, Félix González-Torres, Franciska Clausen, Käthe Kollwitz, Louise Bourgeois, Lutz Bacher, Michael Asher, Phyllida Barlow, Stuart Brisley, Tony Conrad, and Yong Soon Min.
Tackling the question of late work from a variety of perspectives—from art historical investigations to personal memories—many of the essays share an interest in questions of ephemerality, incompleteness, and finitude. The authors relate these formal qualities to specific experiences of loneliness, grief, joy, retrospection, exclusion, and the feeling of time passing. By focusing on artists who persisted in the midst of transformation and limitation, these essays help us find a way of thinking about our futures.
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Source: k-vang.dk K Vang. License: All Rights Reserved.
Source: k-vang.dk K Vang. License: All Rights Reserved.
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