Lawrence Weschler
Lawrence Weschler, né le à Van Nuys (Los Angeles), est un auteur américain d'œuvres de fiction documentaire.
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Ĺ’uvre
Sa série « Passions and Wonders » comprend Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin (1982), David Hockney’s Cameraworks (1984), Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder (1995), A Wanderer in the Perfect City: Selected Passion Pieces (1998), Boggs: A Comedy of Values (1999), Robert Irwin: Getty Garden (2002), Vermeer in Bosnia (2004), Everything that Rises: A Book of Convergences (February 2006) et Uncanny Valley: Adventures in the Narrative (2011).
Bibliographie
- Solidarity: Poland in the Season of Its Passion (1982)
- Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin (1982)
- The Passion of Poland: From Solidarity through the State of War (1984)
- A Miracle, a Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers (1990)
- Shapinsky’s Karma, Boggs’s Bills, and Other True-life Tales (1990)
- Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder (en) (1995)
- A Wanderer in the Perfect City: Selected Passion Pieces (1998)
- Calamities of Exile: Three Nonfiction Novellas (1998)
- J. S. G. Boggs (en): A Comedy of Values (1999)
- Vermeer in Bosnia (2004)
- Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences (2006)
- True To Life: Twenty-Five Years of Conversations with David Hockney (2008)
- Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: Over Thirty Years of Conversations with Robert Irwin (Expanded Edition) (2008)
- Uncanny Valley: Adventures in the Narrative (2011)
- Domestic Scenes: The Art of Ramiro Gomez (2016)
- Waves Passing in the Night (2017)
- And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?: A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks (2019)
RĂ©compenses et distinctions
Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder a été sélectionné pour le prix Pulitzer et le National Book Critics Circle Award et Everything that Rises a reçu le prix 2007 du National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.
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