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Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees : Expanded Edition
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weschler, Lawrence.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aesthetics Artists--United States--Biography.
- Art, Modern--20th century.
- Artists--United States.
- Irwin, Robert.
- Irwin, Robert--Aesthetics.
- Irwin, Robert, 1928-.
- Irwin, Robert, 1928- -- Aesthetics.
- Artists--United States--Biography.
- Artists.
- Art, American--20th century.
- Art, American.
- Local Subjects:
- Aesthetics Artists--United States--Biography.
- Art, Modern--20th century.
- Artists--United States.
- Irwin, Robert.
- Irwin, Robert--Aesthetics.
- Irwin, Robert, 1928-.
- Irwin, Robert, 1928- -- Aesthetics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (331 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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, Richa
- Contents:
- COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; A NOTE ON THE ILLUSTRATIONS; A FURTHER NOTE ON THE DRIFTING PRESENT IN THE NARRATIVE THAT FOLLOWS; seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees (1982); INTRODUCTION; LIFESOURCE; CHAPTER 1: HIGH SCHOOL (1943-46); CHAPTER 2: CHILDHOOD (1928-43); CHAPTER 3: ARMY, SCHOOLING , EUROPE, AND EARLY WORK (1946-57); THE NARROWS (PART 1); CHAPTER 4: FERUS (LOS ANGELES / NEW YORK); CHAPTER 5: THE EARLY FERUS YEARS: FROM ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM THROUGH THE EARLY LINES (1957-62); CHAPTER 6: THE LATER FERUS YEARS: THE LATE LINES (1962- 64)
- THE NARROWS (PART 2)CHAPTER 7: THE DOTS (1964-66); CHAPTER 8: THE DISCS (1966-69); CHAPTER 9: POST-DISC EXPERIMENTS AND COLUMNS (1968-70); DELTA; PRELUDE; CHAPTER 10: TEACHING; CHAPTER 11: ART AND SCIENCE (1968-70); CHAPTER 12: PLAYING THE HORSES; CHAPTER 13: THE ROOM AT THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART (1970); DEBOUCHEMENT; OCEANIC; CHAPTER 14: THE DESERT; CHAPTER 15: BEING AVAILABLE IN RESPONSE; CHAPTER 16: SOME SITUATIONS (1970-76); CHAPTER 17: READING AND WRITING; CHAPTER 18: THE WHITNEY RETROSPECTIVE: DOWN TO POINT ZERO (1977); CHAPTER 19: SINCE THE WHITNEY: RETURN TO THE WORLD (1977-81)
- present all around (1985-2008)CHAPTER 20: SEEING IS SAVORING (1985); CHAPTER 21: PLAY IT AS IT LAYS AN DKEEP IT IN PLAY: ON IRWIN'S RETROSPECTIVE AT MOCA IN LOS ANGELES (1993); CHAPTER 22: WHEN FOUNTAINHEADS COLLIDE: ROBERT IRWIN AT RICHARD MEIER'S GETTY (1997); CHAPTER 23: HEAVEN: IRWIN AND MEYEROWITZAT THE DIA (2000); CHAPTER 24: IRWIN IN HIS SEVENTIES (2007-8); AFTERWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-520-94210-8
- OCLC:
- 773564921
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