Robert Irwin: Why Art? – The 2016 Burt and Deedee McMurtry Lecture

The 2016 Burt and Deedee McMurtry Lecture features distinguished guest artist, ROBERT IRWIN who speaks about perception as the fundamental issue of art. Irwin, who began his career as a painter in the 1950s and became the pioneer of the L.A.-based “Light and Space” movement in the 1960s, has, through a continual breaking down of the frame, come to regard the role of art as “conditional,” or something that works in and responds to the specific surrounding world of experience.