Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees
Douban
Expanded Edition
Lawrence Weschler
Sinossi
"Seeing is Forgetting, The Name of the Thing One Sees - A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin" by Lawrence Weschler, is the life story of controversial artist Robert Irwin. Irwin is the first California artist to rise to a stellar position within the art world. The book chronicles Irwin from his modest beginnings in suburban Los Angeles through his journey of self-discovery in finding his place in the art world. He ultimately pursues the somewhat unrealistic goal of stripping objects of art down to a presence or indeed a perception.
contents
A Note on the Illustrations
A Further Note on the Drifting Present in the Narrative That Follows
Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees (1982)
Introduction
Lifesource
1. High School (1943-1946)
2. Childhood (1928-1943)
3. Army, Schooling, Europe, and Early Work (1946-1957)
The Narrows (Part 1)
4. Ferus (Los Angeles/ New York)
5. The Early Ferus Years
From Abstract Expressionism through the Early Lines (1957-1962)
6. The Late Ferus Years: The Late Lines (1962-1964)
The Narrows (Part 2)
7. The Dots (1964-1967)
8. The Discs (1967-1969)
9. Post-disc Experiments and Columns (1968-1970)
Delta
Prelude
10. Teaching
11. Art and Science (1968-1970)
12. Playing the Horses
13. The Room at the Museum of Modern Art (1970)
Debouchement
Oceanic
14. The Desert
15. Being Available in Response
16. Some Situations (1970-1976)
17. Reading and Writing
18. The Whitney Retrospective Down to Point Zero (1977)
19. Since the Whitney: Return to the World (1977-1981)
Present All Around
20. Seeing Isn't Doing (1985)
21. Play It as It Lays and Keep it in Play
The Irwin Retrospective at MOCA in Los Angeles(1993)
22. When Fountainheads Collide: Robert Irwin at Richard Meier's Getty (1997)
23. Heaven: Irwin and Meyerowitz at the Dia (2000)
24. Irwin in his Seventies (2007-2008)
Afterword: On Robert Irwin and David Hockney
Acknowledgements
Bibliographic notes
Index