Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: Expanded EditionWhen 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) and the design that transformed an abandoned Hudson Valley factory into Dia's new Beacon campus—enhancing what many had already considered the best book ever on an artist. |
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User Review - Shin - GoodreadsThis is a great and all-encompassing primer on Irwin's work written through interviews conducted between Weschler and the artist over a 20-year period and is considered a must-read for young artists ... Read full review
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 3 |
Kurt Markus ii | 16 |
20 | 20 |
CHILDHOOD 192843 | 26 |
Overton Irwin and son ca 1930 | 27 |
ARMY SCHOOLING EUROPE AND EARLY WORK | 33 |
Private Irwin displaying awardwinning drawing ca 1951 | 37 |
THE NARROWS PART | 43 |
POSTDISC EXPERIMENTS AND COLUMNS | 113 |
TEACHING | 123 |
Jan Butterfield | 153 |
THE DESERT BEING AVAILABLE IN RESPONSE SOME SITUATIONS 197076 | 184 |
Three views of Scrim VeilBlack RectangleNatural Light Whitney Museum of American Art | 187 |
SINCE THE WHITNEY RETURN TO THE WORLD | 192 |
PLAY IT AS IT LAYS AND KEEP IT IN PLAY | 216 |
New York City 1977 Photography by Warren Silverman 18687 | 222 |
standing left to right Ed Kienholz John Altoon | 47 |
T H E E A R LY FE R U S YEA R S F R O M A B S T R A | 56 |
Giorgio Morandi Still Life Collection of Marco Valsecchi Milan Italy Scala Art Resource N | 60 |
T H E LAT E R F E R U S YEA R S T H E LATE LIN E | 70 |
Dennis Hopper | 102 |
T H E D OTS 196466 | 103 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: Expanded Edition |
| Author | Lawrence Weschler |
| Contributor | Getty Foundation |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Univ of California Press, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0520256093, 9780520256095 |
| Length | 310 pages |
| Subjects | › › Art / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945) |
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