Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees, Over Thirty Years of Conversations with Robert Irwin

$32.95 at Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

When this book first appeared in 1982, it introduced readers to Robert Irwin, the Los Angeles artist "who one day got hooked on his 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 conversation between Lawrence Weschler and light and space master Irwin. It surveys many of Irwin's site-conditioned projects—in particular, the Central Gardens at the Getty…