"New Yorker" staff writer Weschler explores an odd museum and its eccentric curator to expand on the "slight slippage" he finds between pure wonder and skeptical confusion. Includes b&w drawings.
When this 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 ...
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 (and further) one travels (through geography, through art, through science, through time), the more everything seems to converge -- at least, it does through Weschler's ...
One of the most celebrated artists working in the United States, Maya Lin (b. 1959) came to prominence in 1981 with her design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Generously illustrated and beautifully designed, "Systematic Landscapes" traces her continued fascination with geologic phenomena and topography, integrating natural contours and ...
The author of the best-selling MR. WILSON'S CABINET OF WONDER examines the controversial work of J.S.G. Boggs, an artist who openly bartered extraordinarily realistic drawings of money, and in the process, revealed how intertwined the concepts of culture, art, and finance really are.
From the author of Pulitzer Prize finalist "Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder" comes this much-anticipated new collection of more than 20 pieces from his museum of fascinating cultural delights. Illustrations.
For the first time, New Yorker staff reporter Lawrence Weschler tells the courageous story of how against tremendous odds, torture victims and human rights activistsstice.
Since the 1960s, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has been sending unmanned satellites to explore the planets, moons and sun. These probes have amassed a stunning visual record of other worlds, revealing not one but scores of new frontiers, from rust-red Mars to the ethereal rings of Saturn. In "Beyond", author Michael Benson has ...
These are stories of average men who are unable to return to their native countries, including Kanan Makiya, who criticized Saddam Hussein in his book "Republic of Fear"; and South African poet Breyten Breytenbach, who was imprisoned for revolutionary activities.
"There is something both marvelous and hilarious," writes Lawrence Weschler, "in watching the humdrum suddenly take flight. This is, in part, a collection of such launchings." Indeed, the eight essays collected in "A Wanderer in the Perfect City" do soar into the realm of passion as Weschler profiles people who "were just moseying down the street ...
There are writers who specialize in the strange and others whose genius is to find the strangeness in the familiar, the unexpected meanings in stories we thought we knew. Of that second category, Lawrence Weschler is the master. Witness the pieces in this splendidly disorienting collection, spanning twenty years of his career and the full range of ...
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 dialogs, gathered here for the first time. Weschler chronicles Hockney's ...
During the past fifteen years, one of the most vexing issues facing fledgling transitional democracies around the world--from South Africa to Eastern Europe, from Cambodia to Bosnia--has been what to do about the still-toxic security apparatuses left over from the previous regime. In this now-classic and profoundly influential study, the New ...
Lawrence Weschler has created six remarkable stories of people who suddenly seem to catch fire, becoming utterly obsessed and ending up somewhere entirely different from where they thought they were headed.
Since the 1960s, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has been sending unmanned satellites to explore the planets, moons and sun. These probes have amassed a stunning visual record of other worlds, revealing not one but scores of new frontiers, from rust-red Mars to the ethereal rings of Saturn. In "Beyond", author Michael Benson has ...
Artist Tara Donovan uses commonplace consumer materials--toothpicks, tape, pencils, buttons, paper plates, and the like--to create her dazzling sculptural installations. Often biomorphic or topographical in character, her large-scale abstract works utilize systematic arrangements of thousands or even millions of units. Visually evocative and ...
An ominous transitive verb entered the language in 1970s South America: to "disappear" someone. Some of these artists had family disappeared; others resisted or were forced into exile. Their work fights amnesia, serving as a stay against further atrocities.
From the thousands of digital images collected by NASA's unmanned probes since the 1960s, those bound in this volume are nothing less than works of art, selected for their beauty as much as their subject matter. The resulting book consists of two parts: the first is a spectacular visual tour of the solar system, with panoramic space scapes that ...
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Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People: The Dynamics of Torture
