Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees

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Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees
Author : Lawrence Weschler
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Language : English
Release Date : 01 January 1982
ISBN : 0520045955
Pages : 240 pages
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Traces the life and career of the California artist, who currently works with pure light and the subtle modulation of empty space

Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees

Traces the life and career of the California artist, who currently works with pure light and the subtle modulation of empty space

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Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees

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In recent years as countries around the globe have begun to move from dictatorial to more democratic systems of governance, no more traumatic (or dramatic) ethical problem has arisen than what to do with the previous regime’s torturers. In most cases, the security and military apparatuses, responsible for the

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