Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees

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Lawrence Weschler

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University of California Press
02 February 2009

Art & design styles: from c 1960; Installation art; Individual artists, art monographs

"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, 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."

By: Lawrence Weschler
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: Expanded ed
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 680g
ISBN: 9780520256095
ISBN 10: 0520256093
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 02 February 2009
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Lawrence Weschler's many books include Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder, Vermeer in Bosnia, and Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences, which won the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.

Reviews for Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: Expanded Edition

A magnetic (now expanded) biography. --San Diego Union-Tribune Seeing is Forgetting may not be just the best biography of an artist out there but also one of the best books on contemporary art-making. --Frieze 'Seeing Is Forgetting' and 'True to Life' are not only about the artists talking to Weschler or, through him, to each other; they're about the artists talking to themselves. --Los Angeles Times Book Review