Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees – Over Thirty Years of Conversations with Robert Irwin (Expanded Edition) - Hardcover

Weschler, Lawrence

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520256085 ISBN 13: 9780520256088

Publisher: University of California Press, 2009

Synopsis

Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees Chronicles three decades of conversation between Lawrence Weschler and light and space master Irwin. This book surveys many of Irwin's site-conditioned projects - in particular the Central Gardens at the Getty Museum.

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Review:

"A magnetic (now expanded) biography." -- Robert L. Pincus San Diego Union-Tribune 20090222 "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 20081001

Synopsis:

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) and the design that transformed an abandoned Hudson Valley factory into Dia's new Beacon campus - enhancing what many had already considered the best ever book on an artist.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0520256085
• ISBN 13: 9780520256088
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352