July / August 1977 issue of the periodical "Journal." Edited by Michael Auping. Contents include: "Issues and Commentary;" "Robert Irwin's Whitney Project - Retrospects and Prospects," by Lawrence Weschler; "The Hypothesis is Simple. ... [details]
Summer 1982 issue of Artforum edited by Ingrid Sischy. Contents include: "Forum: Waking Up to How We Sleepwalk," by Lawrence Weschler; "Great Expectations: Artists' TV Guide," by Robin White; "Book for Nigel Greenwood," a project by Richard Tuttle; "Framed: Innocence or Gilt?" by Germano Celant; "Three Color + within +," a project by Robert Mangold; "Negative Presences in Secret Spaces: The Art of Eric Orr," by Thomas McEvilley; "In the Absence of Heroes: The Early Work of Georg Baselitz," by Dr. ... [details]
"When this remarkable 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 extraordinary conversation between Weschler and Light and Space master Irwin, taking us into the heart of what it can mean to be an artist. ... [details]
Number 5 of annual contemporary arts publication. Edited by Michael Janeway and András Szántó. This issue includes contributions by Christopher Hawthorne, Jan Herman, Lawrence Weschler, Carter Harris, Carol Lutfy, Eddie Rollins, Elda Silva, Peter Plagens, Jeffrey Day, Holly Selby, Christine Dolen, Laura Sydell, Daniel Pinchbeck, and Arlene Croce. [details]
"Robert Irwin, who is one of the most important artists of this era, was a seminal figure in 'Light and Space' art. He began as an Abstract Expressionist painter in the 1950s, and was for some time (but no longer) an artist who produced no art objects. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, June 20 - August 15, 1993. Traveled to Kölnischer Kunstverein, Köln, Germany, March 15 - May 15, 1994 ; Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France, June 22 - September 20, 1994 ; and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain, January 31 - April 17, 1995. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, February 4 - April 24, 1988. Traveled to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June 18 - August 14, 1988; and the Tate Gallery, London, October 26, 1988 - January 3, 1989. ... [details]
"Robert Irwin, perhaps the most influential of the California artists, moved from his beginnings in abstract impressionism through successive shifts in style and sensibility, into a new aesthetic territory altogether, one where philosophical concepts of perception and the world interact. ... [details]
Contains Weschler on the graphic of the Polish Solidarity movement, O'Brien on "Bop Art" and the iconography of rock-and-roll, centerfold by Andy Warhol with portrait of Warhol by Makos, and a special clear vinyl flexi-disk insert by Laurie Anderson titled "let X=X. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Solidarnos," by Lawrence Weschler; "Bop Art," by Glenn O'Brien; "Forged Image: Centerfold," by Andy Warhol; "Forged Image: Portrait of Andy Warhol," by Christopher Makos; "Issey Miyake: Sewing a Second Skin"; "Juke Joint Jazz," by Marie Cosindas; "Paradise and Lunch: Advertising's Architecture of Heaven," by Bazon Brock; "Altered States: Newspaper Photographs," by Harold Evans; "Vulgar Modernism," by J. ... [details]