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Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: Expanded Edition
Lawrence Weschler
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Paperback. Chronicles three decades of conversation between Lawrence Weschler and light and space master Robert Irwin. This book surveys many of Irwin's site-conditioned projects - in particular the Central Gardens at the Getty Museum and the design that transformed an abandoned Hudson Valley factory into Dia's new Beacon campus. Num Pages: 336 pages, 51 color and 36 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFKN; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 678. Over Thirty Years of Conversations with Robert Irwin. 336 pages, illustrations. Chronicles three decades of conversation between Lawrence Weschler and light and space master Robert Irwin. This book surveys many of Irwin's site-conditioned projects - in particular the Central Gardens at the Getty Museum and the design that transformed an abandoned Hudson Valley factory into Dia's new Beacon campus. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFKN; AGB. Dimension: 203 x 155 x 22. Weight: 674.
When this book first appeared in 1982, it introduced readers to Robert Irwin, the Los Angeles artist 'who one day got hooked on his own curiosity and decided to live it'. Now expanded to include six additional chapters and twenty-four pages of color plates, Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees chronicles three decades of conversation between Lawrence Weschler and light and space master Irwin. It surveys many of Irwin's site-conditioned projects - in particular the Central Gardens at the Getty Museum (the subject of an epic battle with the site's principal architect, Richard Meier) ... Read more
When this book first appeared in 1982, it introduced readers to Robert Irwin, the Los Angeles artist 'who one day got hooked on his own curiosity and decided to live it'. Now expanded to include six additional chapters and twenty-four pages of color plates, Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees chronicles three decades of conversation between Lawrence Weschler and light and space master Irwin. It surveys many of Irwin's site-conditioned projects - in particular the Central Gardens at the Getty Museum (the subject of an epic battle with the site's principal architect, Richard Meier) ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
693g
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520256095
SKU
V9780520256095
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About Lawrence Weschler
Lawrence Weschler's many books include Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder, Vermeer in Bosnia, and Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences, which won the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.
Reviews for Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: Expanded Edition
A magnetic (now expanded) biography.
Robert L. Pincus San Diego Union-Tribune Seeing is Forgetting may not be just the best biography of an artist out there but also one of the best books on contemporary art-making.
Eugenia Bell Frieze
Robert L. Pincus San Diego Union-Tribune Seeing is Forgetting may not be just the best biography of an artist out there but also one of the best books on contemporary art-making.
Eugenia Bell Frieze