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[Lawrence Weschler] ☆ Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin ✓ Download Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin Traces the life and career of the California artist, who currently works with pure light and the subtle modulation of empty space.]
| Title | : | Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.18 (859 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0520049209 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 215 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-02 |
| Language | : | English |
"great read" according to A Customer. Whether you know Irwin's work or not, are an art afficionado or not, this is a great read for the curious and perceptuallyaware.Weschler translates visual concepts into easily understandable language. His writing is clear and insightful and never falls int. still forgetting Simone Federman I picked up this book in 1984 because it was on a reading list for an Art History class I was taking at Oberlin College. I stayed up all night in the library that night. I couldn't put it down. My mind has never been the same.I still often think of it,tell. A Customer said A fascinating book about creativity and the act of creation. Wechsler is a terrific biographer for Irwin. For while Irwin is himself a voluble and willing subject, Wechsler's insights into the act of creation and the journey of an artist augment Irwin's own insights in an important and illuminating way.Having had no
He has also, in the process, provided what seems to me the best running history of postwar West Coast art that I have yet seen."—Calvin Tomkins. Weschler has charted the journey with exceptional clarity and cogency. From the Inside Flap"Robert Irwin, perhaps the most influential of the California artists, moved from his beginnings in abstract expressionism through successive shifts in style and sensibility, into a new aesthetic territory altogether, one where philosophical concepts of perception and the world interact
Traces the life and career of the California artist, who currently works with pure light and the subtle modulation of empty space.
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