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  • A Miracle, a Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers by Weschler, Lawrence
    Lawrence Weschler

    A Miracle, a Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers

    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...
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  • A Trove of Zohars by Weschler, Lawrence
    Lawrence Weschler

    A Trove of Zohars

    So Lawrence Weschler was minding his own business, as all his stories begin, when he got a call from Gravity Goldberg. Gravity (her real name!) introduced herself as the Director of Public Programs and Visitor Experience at The Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco....
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  • And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?: A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks by Weschler, Lawrence
    Lawrence Weschler

    And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?: A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks

    The untold story of Dr. Oliver Sacks, his own most singular patient An] engrossing biographical memoir. This is Sacks at full blast: on endless ward rounds, observing his post-encephalitic patients . . . exulting over horseshoe crabs and chunks of Iceland spar. --Barbara Kiser,...
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  • Boggs: A Comedy of Values by Weschler, Lawrence
    Lawrence Weschler

    Boggs: A Comedy of Values

    In this highly entertaining book, Lawrence Weschler chronicles the antics of J. S. G. Boggs, an artist whose consuming passion is money, or perhaps more precisely, value. Boggs draws money-paper notes in standard currencies from all over the world-and tries to spend his drawings....
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  • Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Techno Logy by Weschler, Lawrence
    Lawrence Weschler

    Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Techno Logy

    Finalist for Pulitzer Prize for General NonfictionFinalist for National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction Pronged ants, horned humans, a landscape carved on a fruit pit--some of the displays in David Wilson's Museum of Jurassic Technology are hoaxes. But which ones? As he guides...
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  • Robert Irwin Getty Garden by Weschler, Lawrence
    Lawrence Weschler

    Robert Irwin Getty Garden

    In the early 1990s the design and creation of the Central Garden at the Getty Center were entrusted to the distinguished contemporary visual artist Robert Irwin. Irwin-a member of California's "light and space" movement-was an unexpected choice for this major commission, and his work...
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  • Robert Irwin Getty Garden by Weschler, Lawrence
    Lawrence Weschler

    Robert Irwin Getty Garden

    A beautifully illustrated, accessible volume about one of the Getty Center's best-loved sites. Among the most beloved sites at the Getty Center, the Central Garden has aroused intense interest from the moment artist Robert Irwin was awarded the commission. First published in 2002, Robert...
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  • Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: Over Thirty Years of Conversations with Robert Irwin by Weschler, Lawrence
    Lawrence Weschler

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

    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,...
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  • Lena Herzog. Strandbeest. the Dream Machines of Theo Jansen by Herzog, Lena
    Lawrence Weschler

    Strandbeest. the Dream Machines of Theo Jansen

    For seven years, photographer and artist Lena Herzog followed the evolution of a new kinetic species. Intricate as insects but with bursts of equine energy, the "Strandbeests," or "beach creatures," are the creation of Dutch artist Theo Jansen, who has been working for nearly...
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  • This Land: An Epic Postcard Mural on the Future of a Country in Ecological Peril by Weschler, Lawrence
    Lawrence Weschler

    This Land: An Epic Postcard Mural on the Future of a Country in Ecological Peril

    David Opdyke's massive collage This Land (as elucidated in this book by award-winning author Lawrence Weschler) presents a slow-burning satire of the American Dream as it blunders into the reality of climate change.This Land is an epic mural fashioned by New York artist David...
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  • True to Life: Twenty-Five Years of Conversations with David Hockney by Weschler, Lawrence
    Lawrence Weschler

    True to Life: Twenty-Five Years of Conversations with David Hockney

    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...
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  • Vermeer in Bosnia: Selected Writings by Weschler, Lawrence
    Lawrence Weschler

    Vermeer in Bosnia: Selected Writings

    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...
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