Seeing is Forgetting: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin - Softcover

Weschler

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520049209 ISBN 13: 9780520049208

Publisher: University of California Press, 1992

Synopsis

Traces the life and career of the California artist, who currently works with pure light and the subtle modulation of empty space.

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From the Back Cover

"Robert Irwin, perhaps the most influential of the California artists, moved from his beginnings in abstract expressionism through successive shifts in style and sensibility, into a new aesthetic territory altogether, one where philosophical concepts of perception and the world interact. Weschler has charted the journey with exceptional clarity and cogency. He has also, in the process, provided what seems to me the best running history of postwar West Coast art that I have yet seen."—Calvin Tomkins

From the Inside Flap

"Robert Irwin, perhaps the most influential of the California artists, moved from his beginnings in abstract expressionism through successive shifts in style and sensibility, into a new aesthetic territory altogether, one where philosophical concepts of perception and the world interact. Weschler has charted the journey with exceptional clarity and cogency. He has also, in the process, provided what seems to me the best running history of postwar West Coast art that I have yet seen."Calvin Tomkins

Edition details

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520049209
• ISBN 13: 9780520049208
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 215