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Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees : over thirty years of conversations with Robert Irwin

Weschler, Lawrence (author.). Getty Foundation. (Added Author).

Summary: "Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees chronicles three decades of extraordinary conversation between Weschler and Light and Space master Irwin, taking us into the heart of what it can mean to be an artist." "The original dialogues extend from the surf and cars of Irwin's L.A. youth through his passion for abstract expressionism, past his decision to abandon studio work altogether, up to and including the 1977 Whitney Museum of American Art retrospective. This lavishly expanded new edition surveys many of Irwin's subsequent site-conditioned projects - in particular the spectacularly realized Central Garden at the Getty Museum (the subject of an epic battle with the site's principal architect, Richard Meier) and the path-breaking design that transformed an abandoned Hudson Valley factory into Dia's stellar new Beacon campus - enhancing what many had already considered the best-ever book on an artist."--Jacket.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0520256093
  • ISBN: 9780520256095
  • ISBN: 0520256085
  • ISBN: 9780520256088
  • Physical Description: xvi, 310 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
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    print
  • Edition: Expanded edition.
  • Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2008]

Content descriptions

General Note:
"Ahmanson Murphy fine arts imprint"--Preliminary page.
"Published with the assistance of the Getty Foundation."
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-303) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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 1. High School (1943-1946) 2. Childhood (1928-1943) 3. Army, Schooling, Europe, and Early Work (1946-1957) The Narrows (Part 1) 4. Ferus (Los Angeles/ New York) 5. The Early Ferus Years From Abstract Expressionism through the Early Lines (1957-1962) 6. The Late Ferus Years: The Late Lines (1962-1964) The Narrows (Part 2) 7. The Dots (1964-1967) 8. The Discs (1967-1969) 9. Post-disc Experiments and Columns (1968-1970) Delta Prelude 10. Teaching 11. Art and Science (1968-1970) 12. Playing the Horses 13. The Room at the Museum of Modern Art (1970) Debouchement Oceanic 14. The Desert 15. Being Available in Response 16. Some Situations (1970-1976) 17. Reading and Writing 18. The Whitney Retrospective Down to Point Zero (1977) 19. Since the Whitney: Return to the World (1977-1981) Present All Around 20. Seeing Isn't Doing (1985) 21. Play It as It Lays and Keep it in Play The Irwin Retrospective at MOCA in Los Angeles(1993) 22. When Fountainheads Collide: Robert Irwin at Richard Meier's Getty (1997) 23. Heaven: Irwin and Meyerowitz at the Dia (2000) 24. Irwin in his Seventies (2007-2008) Afterword: On Robert Irwin and David Hockney Acknowledgements Bibliographic notes Index.
Subject:
United States
Artists
Art, Modern
Aesthetics
Irwin, Robert -- 1928-
Art, Modern
Art, Modern -- 20th century
Artists -- United States -- Biography
Irwin, Robert -- 1928- -- Aesthetics
Irwin, Robert -- 1928-
Genre:
Biographies.
Biographies.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Westchester Library System.
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Town of Pelham Public Library. (Show)

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