"Robert Irwin, perhaps the most influential of the California artists, moved from his beginnings in abstract impressionism through successive shifts in style and sensibility, into a new aesthetic territory altogether, one where philosophical concepts of perception and the world interact. Weschler has charted this journey with exceptional clarity and cogency. He has also, in the process, provided what seems to me the best running history of postwar West Coast art that I have yet seen" -- Calvin Tomkins, from rear wrapper of book.

A biography about artist Robert Irwin through 1982, portions of which appeared in The New Yorker. Includes eight pages of black-and-white photographs, illustrations, bibliographic notes, and quotations of the artist.