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Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees

Paperback • 2009 • English

Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees

By Lawrence Weschler

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About the 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 Garden...Show more

Biography, Literature and Literary studies

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ISBN

9780520256095

Published year

2009

Language

English

Original title

Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees

Format

Paperback

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