Land Art in Great Britain: A Complete Guide to Landscape, Environmental, Earthworks, Nature, Sculpture and Installation Art in Great Britain

ISBN-13: 9781861714015 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 352 str.

William Malpas

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LAND ART IN GREAT BRITAIN

A new book on land art in Great Britain. There are chapters on land artists such as Chris Drury, Hamish Fulton, David Nash, Richard Long and Andy Goldsworthy. All of the major practitioners of land and environmental art in the U.K. are discussed. The book also considers prehistoric art, stone circles, Romanticism, poetry, religion, womens art, contemporary art, and the impact of the British landscape on British land art.

Fully illustrated, with a newly revised text for this edition. Bibliography and notes. ISBN 9781861714015. 352 pages.

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EXTRACT FROM THE CHAPTER ON ANDY GOLDSWORTHY

One wonders whether Andy Goldsworthy would like to work in snow and ice more than in any other medium. In temperate snowlands one feels Goldsworthy is very much at home. Snow has all the right sorts of qualities Goldsworthy looks for in a material: it is malleable, it melts and changes, its whiteness makes for good, contrasty imagery photographically, and it seasonally alters the landscape, and later dissolves into it.

In Goldsworthys snowworks one senses also the sheer fun working with snow. For people in most of Britain, snow is not a occurrence each year, as it is in, say, Northern Russia or Alaska. Snow can be an exciting event (but British adults usually gripe it). Snow was a perennial delight and shock for Goldsworthy. In Midsummer Snowballs he wrote that even in winter each snowfall is a shock, unpredictable and unexpected.

Goldsworthy retained the child-like enjoyment of snow falling in Britain throughout his life. While much of the U.K. grinds to a halt at the sight of a snowflake, Goldsworthy has the childs joy when it snows (schools cancelled, snowball fights, ice skating, sledging, and making snowmen and snowballs).

Andy Goldsworthy speaks in wonder and awe of the effect, the excitement of the first snowfall. Some of this excitement comes across in Goldsworthys snowworks. He has made, for example, patterns in the snow by rolling a snowball around a field, exactly as kids do when it snows (1982 and 1987).

Some of Goldsworthys earliest works with snow were large snowballs. In some of these early snow pieces, Goldsworthy placed snowballs in areas such as woods and fields which didnt have any snow, so the snowballs stood out in the trees and grass (as in Ilkley, Yorkshire, 1981).