white. Self possession divulging itself.” –Lawrence Weschler commenting on Irwin’s discs “Irwin emphasizes verbally that what he requires of the spectator is for him literally to ‘enact the process of the work’s conception’...There were of course serious problems arising out of the inevitable discrepancy between the artist’s stated demands and the actual uniformed confrontation with the works, which were, for one thing, exceedingly elegant and often ravishing beautiful; one was not necessarily inclined, at least consciously, to respond as searchingly as hoped.” –Jane Livingston’s essay on Irwin’s traveling exhibit of discs 1969 Irwin Quotes “You have to make it very clear to anyone who might read your essay, especially any young artist who might happen to pick it up, that my whole process was really an intuitive activity in which all of the time I was only putting one foot in front of the other, and that each step was not that resolved. Most of the time I didn’t have any idea where I was going; I had no real intellectual clarity as to what it was I thought I was doing. Usually it was just a straightforward commitment in terms of pursuing the particular problems or questions which had been raised in the doing of the work.” -Robert Irwin (artist) “Visually it was very ambiguous which was more real, the object or its shadow. They were basically equal.”-Robert Irwin (artist), 1982 Further reading Davies, Hugh Marlais, and Ronald J. Onorato. ' ' Blurring the Boundaries: Installation Art 1969-1996' ' : [San Diego, Museum of Contemporary Art, 22 Sept 1996 - 26 Jan 1997]. San Diego: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1999. Print. Irwin, Robert, Hugh Marlais Davies, and Leonard Feinstein. ' ' Robert Irwin: Primaries and Secondaries' ' San Diego, CA: Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, 2008. Print. Onarato, Ronald J., and Sarah E. Bremser. ' ' San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art: Selections from the Permanent Collection.' ' La Jolla, CA: Museum, 1990. Print. Weschler, Lawrence. ' ' Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: a Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin.' ' Berkeley: University of California, 1982. Print. References External links 1 MoMA artist bio 2 MoMA artwork description 3 MoMA press release 4 IMA artwork description 5 LACMA artwork description 6 Essay on series 7 Irwin bio 8 List of Irwin works' locations 9 Irwin piece for sale in 2006 Installation art works