Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees
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Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees

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  1. 336 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF
Available until 23 Dec |Learn more

Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees

Expanded Edition

About this book

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.

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Yes, you can access Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees by Lawrence Weschler in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Art & Art General. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9780520256088
eBook ISBN
9780520942103
Edition
1
Topic
Art
Subtopic
Art General
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Table of contents

  1. COVER
  2. TITLE
  3. COPYRIGHT
  4. CONTENTS
  5. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  6. A NOTE ON THE ILLUSTRATIONS
  7. A FURTHER NOTE ON THE DRIFTING PRESENT IN THE NARRATIVE THAT FOLLOWS
  8. seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees (1982)
  9. INTRODUCTION
  10. LIFESOURCE
  11. THE NARROWS (PART 1)
  12. THE NARROWS (PART 2)
  13. DELTA
  14. OCEANIC
  15. present all around (1985–2008)
  16. AFTERWORD
  17. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  18. BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE
  19. INDEX