Robert Irwin : site determined / edited by Matthew Simms ; with essays by Ed Schad, Matthew Simms, Sally Yard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Simms, Matthew Thomas, editor, contributor.

Schad, Ed, contributor.

Yard, Sally, contributor.

California State University, Long Beach. University Art Museum, organizer, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Irwin, Robert, 1928-2023--Exhibitions.

Irwin, Robert.

Irwin, Robert, 1928-2023.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

159 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Long Beach : University Art Museum, California State University ; Munich ; New York : Delmonico Books/Prestel, [2018]

Summary:

"This book explores four decades of Robert Irwin's outdoor environment projects through his drawings and architectural models. Over the course of a storied career, Robert Irwin has come to regard art as site determined, or something that works in and responds to its surroundings. This book opens with his projects on college campuses between 1975 and 1982. These are followed by Irwin's major, yet never realized, commission for the Miami International Airport, where he proposed to transform the structure, parking lots, and roadways into a sequence of aesthetic and practical spaces that engaged directly with the South Florida environment. It then turns to one of Irwin's most celebrated works, the Central Garden at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Finally, the book takes readers to the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas, and one of Irwin's most ambitious works to date-a monumental artwork that brilliantly connects viewers to the land and sky. Throughout this collection of drawings, models, and photographs of magnificent, groundbreaking projects, readers will come to see Irwin as a visionary artist and a brilliant draftsman"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword / Kimberli Meyer

Introduction / Matthew Simms

From light and space to site-determined art / Matthew Simms

Site determined: an unfolding in time / Sally Yard

The rest is all sky: Irwin in Marfa / Ed Schad.

Notes:

"This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Robert Irwin: Site Determined, organized by the University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach and curated by Dr. Matthew Simms."

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783791356716

3791356712

OCLC:

982089591