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Stone

by: Andy Goldsworthy

Andy Goldsworthy uses natural materials -- rocks, boulders, sand, mud, and clay -- to create outdoor sculptures.

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Wood

by: Andy Goldsworthy

Goldsworthy perceives wood as a symbol of growth, change, and transformation. This vision culminates in a triumphant series of works, reproduced in this book, made in all four seasons on, under, and around a magnificent oak tree near the artist's home in Scotland.

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Time

by: Andy Goldsworthy

Celebrates time, an element in the work of Andy Goldsworthy both as a medium and as a metaphor. This book features an introduction by the artist and a sequence of works made around his home. It includes Goldsworthy's diaries of visits to five locations in North America and Europe. It is intended as a reference on Andy Goldsworthy and his work.

This oversized volume shows each of the sculptures in a series of photographs taken over time, sometimes in different seasons.

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Passage

by: Andy Goldsworthy

The journeys that people, rivers, landscapes and even stone take through space and time are central to this book. Passage is an eloquent testament to Andy Goldsworthy's determination to both deepen and extend his understanding of the world around him and his relationship with it through his art.

A cairn built at the entrance to the village in Scotland where Goldsworthy lives reveals the importance of his work close to home, which inspires so much that he then creates elsewhere. Three similar cairns now span the United States, marking the artist's own journey across the States as well as the culmination of a form that has long played a significant part in his work.

Works involving elm trees made near his home exemplify his work's vigorous beauty as well as its association with death and decay, here made more poignant by the knowledge that so few elms have survived disease.

Goldsworthy's works on the beach and in rivers, which change in response to the ebb and flow of water, continue his exploration of the passage of time, while a path in Sussex, intended to be walked by moonlight, investigates the impact of light upon the sculpture and place, and the passing from day into night.

Passage also includes Goldsworthy's most recent commission, the Garden of Stones, a Holocaust memorial at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York. Here eighteen oak trees were planted in earth-filled boulders, growing in almost impossible circumstances, carry powerful symbolic meaning.

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Enclosure

by: Andy Goldsworthy

In the early 1990s Andy Goldsworthy was invited to propose a project for Cumbria, a region of outstanding natural beauty where the landscape has been moulded for centuries by agriculture and in particular by sheep-farming. His response was to repair or rebuild a swathe of Cumbrian sheepfolds - with the intention that, wherever possible the folds would still be accessible to sheep.

Among the sculptures are slate works and balanced stones embedded in walls and a series of sixteen folds each containing a massive boulder rolled down from the nearby hillside. By 2006 over forty structures had been completed: it is this extraordinary project that forms the core of Enclosure.

This impressive volume is testament to Goldsworthy's lifelong interest in the land, its history and its inhabitants.

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Arch

by: Andy Goldsworthy, David Craig

Renowned for creating art outdoors and from natural materials, British artist Andy Goldsworthy here offers an inside look at an intriguing project. Following the route along which sheep were once driven from Scotland to markets in the north of England, he builds, dismantles, and rebuilds along the way a red sandstone arch.

Made of blocks hewn from a Scottish quarry, the arch begins its journey in a dilapidated stone sheepfold. Goldsworthy's color photographs track its progress southward, as it is constructed in the morning and taken down in the evening in a variety of locations, including the site of a vanished stone sheep pen in a town center, in a field high above a six-lane highway, and half in and half out of a stream.

Goldsworthy lives near the beginning of the arch's route; writer David Craig lives near its end. He shares Goldsworthy's concern for the history of the land, and his text touches both on the route's ancient origins and on the people who have lived and worked along it. His delightful evocation of the arch's travels and its reception in various communities brings Goldsworthy's project to life.

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Wall

Goldsworthy created a spectacular outdoor sculpture with all natural materials. This 2,284-foot-long stone wall snakes through the trees, plunges into a lake, and heads up a grassy slope. Also photographed are ephemeral natural works that were created on or near the wall.

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Midsummer Snowballs

by: Andy Goldsworthy

Just after midnight on June 21, 2000, Midsummer Day, Andy Goldsworthy supervised the unloading of 13 huge snowballs from refrigerated trucks onto the streets of London. Goldsworthy presents a unique confrontation between the wilderness and the city--snowballs made in the Scottish winter brought to the streets of London in the summertime. Over 100 photos.

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Sheepfolds

by: Andy Goldsworthy

Sheepfolds is a major arts project commissioned by Cumbria County Council. Goldsworthy worked on 48 sheepfolds spread across the county to create art that reflects on man's use of the landscape, the passage of time and memory.

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Andy Goldsworthy: A Collaboration with Nature

by: Andy Goldsworthy

Using a seemingly endless range of natural materials, Goldsworthy creates sculpture in the open that manifests a sympathetic contact with the natural world. 120 full-color photographs.

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Andy Goldsworthy: Touching Nature: Special Edition (Sculptors S.)

by: William Malpas

A new and revised edition of the best-selling book about Andy Goldsworthy.

A completely rewritten exploration of the sculptor, updated to include recent works such as Night Path (2002) and Chalk Stones (2003) in Sussex, Three Cairns (2002) on the East and West coasts, Stone Houses (2004) and Garden of Stones (2003) in Gotham, Passage (2005) in London, and Slate Domes (2005) in Washington, DC.

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Hand to Earth: Andy Goldsworthy Sculpture 1976-1990

by: Andy Goldsworthy, Terry Friedman

First introduced to America through A Collaboration with Nature (1991), Goldsworthy's sculptures are created in the open from natural materials such as ice, leaves, rock, and clay, then photographed--to become award-winning pictures. Here nearly 200 illustrations--over 100 in color--make a fascinating collection.

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The Art of Andy Goldsworthy: Complete Works: Special Edition (Sculptors)

by: William Malpas

A new, special edition of the study of the contemporary British sculptor, Andy Goldsworthy, including a new introduction, new bibliography and many new illustrations. The hardback edition updates the paperback, and includes the latest information on Goldsworthy. It has been rewritten throughout. This is the most comprehensive, up-to-date, well-researched and in-depth account of Goldsworthy's art available anywhere. A new and up-to-date appraisal of the contemporary British sculptor, Andy Goldsworthy, who makes 'land' or 'earth' art. His sculpture is a sensitive, intuitive response to nature, light, time, growth, the seasons and the earth. Goldsworthy's environmental art is becoming ever more popular: 1993's art book Stone was a bestseller; the press raved about Goldsworthy taking over a number of London West End art galleries in 1994; during 1995 Goldsworthy designed a set of Royal Mail stamps and had a show at the British Museum. Malpas surveys all of Goldsworthy's art, and analyzes his relation with other earth/ land artists such as Robert Smithson, Walter de Maria, Richard Long and David Nash, and his place in the contemporary British art scene. Andy Goldsworthy is a particularly gentle and sensitive artist: he stitches together leaves to forms lines, often placed in water, or makes circular slabs of snow, or entwines twigs in an arc. He creates a delicate spiral of chestnut leaves, called Autumn Horn; he pins bright yellow dandelions on willowherb stalks in a circle, on bluebells; he makes lines and cairns, like Richard Long, of pebbles; he makes hollow, circular structures, like igloos, from slate, leaves, driftwood and bracken; he makes long wavy ridges in Arizonian desert sand;he makes arches, globes, hollow spheres, slabs, spires, spirals and star-shapes out of snow and ice. Very impressive it all is. The sculptures made of sticks, for instance, stuck together in an arch, or a line, reflected in the mirror-like water of Derwent Water in Cumbria, are indeed wonderful. The sculptures exude tranquillity, an early morning calm. Or the globe made from oak leaves in various states of autumnal decay, superb stuff. Or the globe made out of snow, and perched amidst some young trees, or the slabs of snow, set up in a line with slits cut in them. The Art of Andy Goldsworthy discusses all of Goldsworthy's important and recent exhibitions and books, including the Sheepfolds project; the Channel Four documentaries; Time and Passage; the New York Holocaust memorial (2003); and Goldsworthy's collaboration on a dance performance.

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