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A Way To Look At Things By Not Forgetting Their Names, Chinati Foundation Newsletter, Vol. 20 (2015), Pp. 52–63
2017
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Actually I am not so sure that to look hard at a thing is to forget its name — Valéry's hasty quip which says as much seems to duck the troublesome and ever-present tangle of sights and words. For, try as I might, I never quite break free from language when I take in a work of art by Irwin; studying it involves in some basic way either recognizing by name that which already has one, or else discovering that what is there does not yet have a name. Perhaps Valéry got it wrong on purpose, though.
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