Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin First edition by Weschler, Lawrence (1982) Hardcover Cover
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Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin First edition by Weschler, Lawrence (1982) Hardcover

Lawrence Weschler

Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees traces the life and career of the California artist,Robert Irwin, the Los Angeles artist "who one day got hooked on his own curiosity and decided to live it." Robert currently works with pure light and the subtle modulation of empty space. These pa...

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The Ezra Klein Show

Lawrence Weschler's Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees narrated the life of lightandspace artist Robert Irwin, offering insight into conceptual installation practice.

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The next book was Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees by Lawrence Weschler. And this is a biography or almost a memoir of being with the artist Robert Irwin, who is a light and space a...

— Episode: How to Discover Your Own Taste

Episode: How to Discover Your Own Taste

Lawrence Weschler's Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees narrated the life of lightandspace artist Robert Irwin, offering insight into conceptual installation practice.

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The next book was Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees by Lawrence Weschler. And this is a biography or almost a memoir of being with the artist Robert Irwin, who is a light and space artist from California, kind of like a minimalist but in an atmospheric environmental installation way.

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