"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. Weschler has charted the journey with exceptional clarity and cogency. 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
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"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. Weschler has charted the journey with exceptional clarity and cogency. 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
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Add this copy of Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: a to cart. $13.12, good condition, Sold by Orion Tech rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Arlington, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1982 by University of California Press.
Add this copy of Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: a to cart. $41.25, very good condition, Sold by Pistil Books Online rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Seattle, WA, UNITED STATES, published 1982 by University of California Press.
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Near Fine. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 208 pages, plus index. " In May 1980, Robert Irwin returned to Market Street in Venice, California to the block where he had kept a studio until 1970, the year he abandoned studio work altogether. Malinda Wyatt was opening a gallery in the building next door to his former work space and invited Irwin to create an installation. He cleaned out the large rectangular room, adjusted the skylights, painted the walls an even white, and then knocked out the wall facing the street, replacing it with a sheer, semi-transparent white scrim. The room seemed to change its aspect with the passing day: people came and sat on the opposite curb, watching, sometimes for hours at time." (Note on the cover illustration. ) The piece was up for two weeks in one of the more derelict beachfront neighborhoods of Los Angeles: no one so much as laid a hand on it.
Add this copy of Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A to cart. $75.00, like new condition, Sold by Friends Library Bookstore rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Eau Claire, WI, UNITED STATES, published 1982 by University of California Press.
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Fine in fair dust jacket. The dust jacket has an inch long tear from the middle of the back top. The book has no wear or markings. NOT ex-library. 212 p. "The richly anecdotal quality of Weschler's narrative, recording the concrete reality of Irwin's aesthetic evolution, affords a rare understanding of the influences that have shaped modern art." From the publisher's description.
Add this copy of Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: a to cart. $157.64, new condition, Sold by GridFreed rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from North Las Vegas, NV, UNITED STATES, published 1982 by University of California Press.
Add this copy of Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees to cart. $159.00, very good condition, Sold by J.E. Miles, A Bookseller rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from OCEANSIDE, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1982 by University of California.
Add this copy of Seeing is Forgetting. the Name of the Thing One Sees. a to cart. $200.00, like new condition, Sold by Waverley Books rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Santa Monica, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1982 by University of California Press.
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Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0520045955. First edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket. (212pp. ) (6 1/4' X 9 1/4") (A few short edge nicks in jacket. ) B&w photos. Much nicer copy than one usually encounters.; 6 1/4" x 9 1/4"; 212 pages.
