Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held October 21, 2007 – February 23, 2008 at the Jacobs Building and October 21, 2007 – April 13, 2008 at 1001 Kettner. Essays by Robert Irwin and Hugh M. Davies. Includes a DVD documentation of the exhibition installation. "A pivotal influence in contemporary art, Robert Irwin's work investigates perception and phenomenological experience through sculptural and installation works that engage directly with a location's physical conditions. In the late 1960s, Irwin's early pieces helped to define the aesthetics of the West Coast Light and Space movement. In 1970, Irwin abandoned his studio-based art and stripped away all of his conceptions about art-making, until only those two criteria truly did remain: light and space. By the 1980s, he had evolved guidelines for how a site-based art could proceed, and, in a seminal 1986 statement, he laid out approaches for 'site dominant,' 'site adjusted,' 'site specific' or 'site conditioned' art--terms that are still essential today. 'Robert Irwin: Primaries and Secondaries' spans five decades of the artist's work." -- publisher's statement.