Irwin Robert Lawrence Weschler (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. Cloth, 174 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 29 cm. Garden photography, Becky Cohen. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Fine DJ. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. Richly illustrated with colour plates. *** "In the early 1990s the design and creation of the Central Garden at the Getty Center were entrusted to the distinguished contemporary visual artist Robert Irwin. Irwin-a member of California's 'light and space' movement-was an unexpected choice for this major commission, and his work has aroused intense interest in the art world and among gardening enthusiasts and visitors to the Getty Center. In Robert Irwin Getty Garden, Lawrence Weschler offers a lively account of the creation of what Irwin has playfully termed 'a sculpture in the form of a garden aspiring to be art.' Weschler's narrative is followed by a transcript of conversations in which he and Irwin, in a series of walks through the garden, discuss in detail the decisions, both philosophical and practical, that shaped the making of this major art work in Southern California. The book contains more than one hundred colour illustrations, many of them specially commissioned from photographer Becky Cohen. The photographs capture the stunning variety of colors and textures of the plant forms selected by Irwin. They also reveal the care and precision that went into the creation of each element of the garden environment, from the handrails and lighting fixtures to the huge azalea rings and waterfall that make a visit to the Getty Central Garden an unusually thought-provoking experience. Robert Irwin has exhibited widely in galleries and museums in North America and abroad. / Lawrence Weschler teaches at Columbia University and Sarah Lawrence College and has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1981. His ten books include Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin and Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder. Becky Cohen is an artist/photographer." - Publisher. Size: 4to. Collectible.…

Hardcover with dustjacket; 174 pages, very good condition; light rubbing to dj; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Fine in original wrappers.

Cloth. Condition: Fine Condition. Fine Condition. 170 pages. Hardcover. Texts in English. Tight, bright, sharp and clean condition. 136 illustrations 106 in color. Garden Photography by Becky Cohen. List of Illustrations. Book.

Softcover with dustjacket, 164 pages, in Spanish; very good condition, except very yellowed glassine dj only good with some moderate edgewear; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

27x24. 161 pags.

Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition / First printing. Signed by Lawrence Weschler on the title page. Weschler has added: "Nothing is too wonderful to be true! And: Passions and Wonders Volume I. White cloth. xiv, 212 pages. Fine in very good dust jacket with wrinkling to the top edge of the front panel. Robert Irwin (illustrator).…

Larkspur Landing; The Lapsis Press, 1985. 23x25 cm. 157, (1 blank) pp. Publisher's cloth with gilt title on spine, printed dustjacket. There is a short overlapping tear in lower margin on the jacket's front panel, otherwise fine. Published in conjunction with the artist's exhibitions at The Pace Gallery and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. "This book, written by the artist, lays out his theoretical position and documents the working processes behind seventeen major sculpture projects created over the past decade." (front flap). From the library of Anders Tornberg Gallery in Lund, Sweden, and with a stamp confirming this on the last blank page.…

53 pp.; 27.7 x 21.4 cm.; staple bound; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed; July / August 1977 issue of the periodical "Journal." Edited by Michael Auping. Contents include: "Issues and Commentary;" "Robert Irwin's Whitney Project - Retrospects and Prospects," by Lawrence Weschler; "The Hypothesis is Simple.", by Robert Irwin; "A Conversation with Richard Diebenkorn," by Susan C. Larsen; "Excerpts," by Peter Plagens; "Music Space - Computer Time," by John Whitney; "Talking with Douglas Huebler," by Michael Auping; "A Multitude of Pieces or a Piece for the Multitudes," by Sue Ann Dorman; "On the Subject of Rape," by Linda Rosengarten and "Duchamp in New York: The Magnum Opus," by Kim Levin. Cover: Robert Irwin. Good. Mailed copy with mailing marks and mailing wear and printed address sticker on verso which is torn and yellowed. Pencil notations and drawings across verso with 3.2 cm. area of black ink writing on verso. 8 mm. tear to verso with ripplicing across verso 3 mm. of yellow/rust soiling to edge of pages 48-54 and verso. 8 mm. tear to bottom edge of recto and light tearing along spine edge. Contents otherwise clean and unmarked.…