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  <default_description>&quot;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.&quot;--Calvin Tomkins</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[Probably the best book about an artist you'll ever read (assuming you ever do read one). <br/><br/>Weschler does what any/every greater writer should do. That is, to coax the reader to invest (and perhaps even &quot;care&quot; about) a subject heretofore (yes, I just used heretofore in a sentence ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49205938">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a difficult book to read becausse of my separate reaction to Robert Irwin as a person and a thinker.  Before reading 20 pages, I had the opinion that Irwin is a self-involved prat.  <br/><br/>But, his ideas about art and experience dovetail nicely with my recent meditations.  Due to my re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12592110">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm reading this A: Because I looooooved Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonders and B: Because I most often find myself writing about art and artists, and always want the writing to stand on its own, as just that: writing. The reviews of this book give it real merit as a great story brilliantly told, perio...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1061418">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Was a life-changing event when I picked this book up.  Irwin is a reason I still paint and observe.  You will be affected by this book in one way or another, but in my way I found joy in not just the making and painting, but thinking about what I was making and painting.  If you've never seen an Irw...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11392979">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a great book.  Irwin's line of inquiry from swing-dancing and working on cars as a kid through painting to installation and public 'sculpture' in his later life evidences a curious mind more interested in questions than answers.<br/> Get the more recent publication with more recent conversa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45829457">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just awesome.  Robert Irwin is an amazing artist, and to be able to read these short interviews with him really allows you to better understand his art, and your own.  There is a new version coming out that has been updated.  I'll review that when I get it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was expecting to have my mind blown, but I think that's where Irwin's work comes in. This tight biography is a great read, and there were some amazing passages I found myself copying into my sketchbook. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[what i enjoyed about this books was that instead of it reading as just another biography it reads more as a documentation of the artist as an interview as oppose to anything else......you learn not just about him and his thought process but the little silly things that somehow actually matter even t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1741095">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[So there I am, sitting in my undergrad studio.  I've got Ad Reinhardt, Franz Kline, Pierrre Soulages, etc surrounding me..struggling to paint my white canvas white in a way that resonates, vibrates.  Why am I reading about a guy who stared at two lines on a canvas for two years two and a half years ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10244319">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had been in love with Robert Irwin's light and form experiments long before I knew what his name was. I had seen them in SF's MOMA and at the Norton Simon and the LACMA. A friend gave me this book because he thought I and Irwin thought along similar patterns. It's an undeserved flattery, but I LOV...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9859133">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[my reviews are really unhelpful...I thought his paintings were mildly interesting until I read this book--now he's one of my favorite artists--so perceptive and aware of visual perception (which I'm very interested in). I appreciate his work so much more now. Lawrence Wechshler is also a great write...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18421106">more...</a>]]></body>
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