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1	Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Techno Logy more books like this by Lawrence Weschler add to wishlist "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. see all copies from $3.56! new only from $8.97! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: Over Thirty Years of Conversations with Robert Irwin more books like this by Lawrence Weschler add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $11.45! new only from $18.73! \| SVS
3	Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences more books like this by Lawrence Weschler add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $7.35! new only from $17.82! \| signed copies \| SVS
4	Maya Lin: Systematic Landscapes more books like this by Richard Andrews, John Beardsley, Lawrence Weschler (Foreword by) add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $149.48! new only from $480.00! \| first editions
5	Boggs: A Comedy of Values more books like this by Lawrence Weschler add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $8.50! new only from $11.81! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin more books like this by Lawrence Weschler add to wishlist Traces the life and career of the California artist, who currently works with pure light and the subtle modulation of empty space. see all copies from $9.77! first editions
7	Vermeer in Bosnia: Cultural Comedies and Political Tragedies more books like this by Lawrence Weschler add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.03! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	A Miracle, a Universe: Settlin more books like this by Lawrence Weschler add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $46.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	Shapinsky's Karma, Bogg's Bills: And Other True-Life Tales more books like this by Lawrence Weschler add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.45! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Beyond: Visions of the Interplanetary Probes more books like this by Michael Benson, Lawrence Weschler (Afterword by), Arthur Charles Clarke (Foreword by) add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $2.46! new only from $9.56! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Robert Irwin Getty Garden more books like this by Lawrence Weschler, Becky Cohen (Photographer) add to wishlist The Getty Center garden in Los Angeles is the focus of this history and appreciation, which is illustrated with 166 lush color plates. see all copies from $35.53! new only from $56.80!
12	Calamities of Exile: Three Nonfiction Novellas more books like this by Lawrence Weschler add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.94! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	A Wanderer in the Perfect City: Selected Passion Pieces more books like this by Lawrence Weschler add to wishlist "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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.00! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Vermeer in Bosnia: Selected Writings more books like this by Lawrence Weschler add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $2.70! new only from $7.79! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	True to Life: Twenty-Five Years of Conversations with David Hockney more books like this by Lawrence Weschler add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $12.05! new only from $15.45! \| first editions \| SVS
16	Solidarity, Poland in the Season of Its Passion more books like this by Lawrence Weschler add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $23.00! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	A miracle a universe : settling accounts with torturers. more books like this by Lawrence Weschler add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $4.00! new only from $17.71! \| first editions \| SVS
18	Shapinsky's Karma, Boggs's Bill, and Other True-Life Tales more books like this by Lawrence Weschler add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $18.54!
19 view cover	Beyond: Visions of Interplanetary Probes more books like this by Michael Benson, Arthur Charles Clarke (Foreword by), Lawrence Weschler (Afterword by) add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $4.28! new only from $44.66!
20	A Miracle, a Universe: 2settling Accounts with Torturers more books like this by Lawrence Weschler add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Tara Donovan more books like this by Tara Donovan, Lawrence Weschler (Text by), Nicholas Baume (Text by) add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $27.31! new only from $27.31! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22	Passion of Poland more books like this by Lawrence Weschler add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99!
23 view cover	The Disappeared/Los Desaparecidos more books like this by Laurel Reuter (Editor), Lawrence Weschler (Preface by) add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $23.30! new only from $23.30!
24 view cover	Mas Alla: La Vision de Las Sondas Interplanetarias more books like this by Michael Benson, Arthur Charles Clarke (Prologue by), Lawrence Weschler (Epilogue by) add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $38.44! new only from $38.44! \| SVS
25	Mr. Wilsons Wunderkammer by Lawrence Weschler add to wishlist see all copies from $55.45!

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