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Author: Lawrence Weschler
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1982-01-01
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780520045958
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Traces the life and career of the California artist, who currently works with pure light and the subtle modulation of empty space
Author: Lawrence Weschler
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 0520256093
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"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
Author: Lawrence Weschler
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2009-01-26
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0520258797
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Soon after the book's publication in 1982, artist David Hockney read Lawrence Weschler's Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin and invited Weschler to his studio to discuss it, initiating a series of engrossing dialogues, gathered here for the first time. Weschler chronicles Hockney's protean production and speculations, including his scenic designs for opera, his homemade xerographic prints, his exploration of physics in relation to Chinese landscape painting, his investigations into optical devices, his taking up of watercolor—and then his spectacular return to oil painting, around 2005, with a series of landscapes of the East Yorkshire countryside of his youth. These conversations provide an astonishing record of what has been Hockney's grand endeavor, nothing less than an exploration of "the structure of seeing" itself.
Author: Lawrence Weschler
Publisher: McSweeney's
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From a cuneiform tablet to a Chicago prison, from the depths of the cosmos to the text on our T-shirts, Lawrence Weschler finds strange connections wherever he looks. The farther one travels (through geography, through art, through science, through time), the more everything seems to converge -- at least, it does if you're looking through Weschler's giddy, brilliant eyes. Weschler combines his keen insights into art, his years of experience as a chronicler of the fall of Communism, and his triumphs and failures as the father of a teenage girl into a series of essays sure to illuminate, educate, and astound.
Author: Lawrence Weschler
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2020-06-18
Total Pages: 138
ISBN-13: 1606066560
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A beautifully illustrated, accessible volume about one of the Getty Center’s best-loved sites. Among the most beloved sites at the Getty Center, the Central Garden has aroused intense interest from the moment artist Robert Irwin was awarded the commission. First published in 2002, Robert Irwin Getty Garden is comprised of a series of discussions between noted author Lawrence Weschler and Irwin, providing a lively account of what Irwin has playfully termed “a sculpture in the form of a garden aspiring to be art.” The text revolves around four garden walks: extended conversations in which the artist explains the critical choices he made—from plant materials to steel—in the creation of a living work of art that has helped to redefine what a modern garden can and should be. This updated edition features new photography of the Central Garden in a smaller, more accessible format.
Author: Lawrence Weschler
Publisher: Catapult
Published: 2011-10-01
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 1582438412
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Shuttling between cultural comedies and political tragedies, Lawrence Weschler's articles have throughout his long career intrigued readers with his unique insight into everything he examines, from the ordinary to the extraordinary. Uncanny Valley continues the page–turning conversation as Weschler collects the best of his narrative nonfiction from the past fifteen years. The title piece surveys the hapless efforts of digital animators to fashion a credible human face, the endlessly elusive gold standard of the profession. Other highlights include profiles of novelist Mark Salzman, as he wrestles with a hilariously harrowing bout of writer's block; the legendary film and sound editor Walter Murch, as he is forced to revisit his work on Apocalypse Now in the context of the more recent Iraqi war film Jarhead; and the artist Vincent Desiderio, as he labors over an epic canvas portraying no less than a dozen sleeping figures. With his signature style and endless ability to wonder, Weschler proves yet again that the "world is strange, beautiful, and connected" (The Globe and Mail). Uncanny Valley demonstrates his matchless ability to analyze the marvels he finds in places and people and offers us a new, sublime way of seeing the world.
Author: Rob Atteberry
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2017-06-15
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 1532023154
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →At his pinnacle, author Rob Atteberry was a fit guy, an overachiever who competed in triathlons and chased after personal bests both at work and at home. He was a husband and a father with responsibilities, deadlines, and projects to complete. In 2012, just turning forty years old, Atteberry was diagnosed with lymphoma. In Go! Go! Go! Atteberry shares his inspirational story of fighting and beating cancer twice, transforming his life from workaholic to athlete and family man. He tells how he began his cancer journey as a young, busy executive and came out of it a broken man, unable to walk or talk and in desperate need to rebuild his life. His narrates a story of survival, spurred on by the support of his family, friends, and faith in God. Atteberrys story in Go! Go! Go! teaches an important life lesson: slow down and appreciate what matters most in life.
Author: Robin Lee Clark
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2011-10-08
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0520949765
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →During the 1960s and 1970s, a loosely affiliated group of Los Angeles artists--including Larry Bell, Mary Corse, Robert Irwin, James Turrell, and Doug Wheeler--more intrigued by questions of perception than by the crafting of discrete objects, embraced light as their primary medium. Whether by directing the flow of natural light, embedding artificial light within objects or architecture, or playing with light through the use of reflective, translucent, or transparent materials, each of these artists created situations capable of stimulating heightened sensory awareness in the receptive viewer. Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface, companion book to the exhibition of the same name, explores and documents the unique traits of the phenomenologically engaged work produced in Southern California during those decades and traces its ongoing influence on current generations of international artists. Foreword by Hugh M. Davies Additional contributors: Michael Auping Stephanie Hanor Adrian Kohn Dawna Schuld Artists: Peter Alexander Larry Bell Ron Cooper Mary Corse Robert Irwin Craig Kauffman John McCracken Bruce Nauman Eric Orr Helen Pashgian James Turrell De Wain Valentine Doug Wheeler
Author: Marianne Stockebrand
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780300251456
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A beautiful book on the famed Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas The Chinati Foundation, a world-famous destination for large-scale contemporary art, was founded by Donald Judd (1928-1994) to preserve and present a select number of permanent installations that were inextricably linked to the surrounding landscape in Marfa, Texas. This handsome publication, first published in 2010 and now available with a new chapter devoted to the permanent installation by Robert Irwin that was inaugurated in 2016 and a new foreword by Jenny Moore, director of the Chinati Foundation, describes how Judd developed his ideas of the role of art and museums from the early 1960s onward, culminating in the creation of Chinati. The individual installations featured here include work by John Chamberlain, Dan Flavin, David Rabinowitch, Roni Horn, Ilya Kabakov, Richard Long, Ingólfur Arnarsson, Carl Andre, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje Van Bruggen, and John Wesley, as well as by Judd himself. The book also features a complete catalogue of the collection and writings by Judd relating to Chinati and Marfa. Published in association with the Chinati Foundation/La Fundación Chinati
Author: Kim Manley Ort
Publisher:
Published: 2016-11-01
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780995282605
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Kim Manley Ort's online photography workshop, Adventures in Seeing, is now available in book form. The 45 photographic "calls to adventure" will teach you to pause and focus before connecting or clicking the shutter. You'll discover that ordinary reality is quite extraordinary.
