Diaries of the German-American artist, Eva Hesse (1936–1970), known for her sculptures that made innovative use of industrial and everyday materials. Her diaries and journals convey her anxieties, her feelings about family and friends, her quest to be an artist, and the complexities of living in the world. The diaries featured in this publication begin in 1955 and describe Hesse's time at Yale University, followed by a sojourn in Germany with her husband, Tom Doyle, and her return to New York and a circle of friends that included Sol LeWitt, Mel Bochner, Lucy Lippard, Robert Mangold and Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Robert Ryman, Mike Todd, and Paul Thek.