Stuart Collection: Robert Irwin - Two Running Violet V Forms

Contents: Foreword and Acknowledgments / Richard Koshalek and Kerry Brougher -- The Hidden Structures of Art / Robert Irwin -- Deep Time / Sally Yard -- Hands On: Irwin and Abstract Expressionism / John Hallmark Neff -- Expression: Lines, Dots, Discs; Light / Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe -- The Architecture of Perception / Klaus Kertess -- Art-in-Response / Arthur C. Danto -- Playing It as It Lays & Keeping It in Play: A Visit with Robert Irwin / Lawrence Weschler.

Artist Robert Irwin presents his approach to art and its role in the world, and talks about his lifelong process of artistic search and discovery. Shows him at work on some of his installations in various locations.

Robert Irwin, one of the most influential postwar American artists and a pioneering figure of California Light and Space Art, is the subject of this book that traces his development and remarkable accomplishments in the 1960s. The first publication to focus exclusively on Irwin's extraordinary trajectory during the 1960s, this book explores how the artist moved from creating small-scale abstract paintings to temporary installations that responded to the specific circumstances of a given site. During this relatively brief interval, Irwin methodically interrogated the most essential premises of art and, in the process, ultimately redefined what a work of art could be, proposing that art not be limited to objects but be considered a way of seeing. Through its discussion of Irwin's paintings, sculptures, and his new site-conditioned scrim installation created in response to the Hirshhorn's distinctive round architecture, this publication immerses the reader in the artist's groundbreaking investigations into the nature of color, light, and perception.

A photomechanical reproduction of a drawing of Robert Irwin's sculpture, "Two Running Violet V Forms". Sculpture is part of the The Stuart Collection at the University of California at San Diego. Original drawing is ink and pencil : 24 x 46 inches.