Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees Over Thirty Years of Conversations with Robert Irwin #pdf by Lawrence Weschler

Over Thirty Years of Conversations with Robert Irwin


University of California Press | ISBN:0520256093 | File Type: PDF, 310 pages | File size: 57.Mb | Jan. 1st, 2009
Artists Architects Photographers Biographies Autobiographies: Over Thirty Years of Conversations with Robert Irwin 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 particar 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 book ever on an artist