- Paperback: 400 pages
- Publisher: Crescent Moon Publishing; Revised edition edition (June 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1861710593
- ISBN-13: 978-1861710598
- Product Dimensions: 15.6 x 23.4 x 2.1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 522 g
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THE ART OF ANDY GOLDSWORTHY
This is the most comprehensive and detailed study of British artist Andy Goldsworthy, and is the only full-length exploration of Goldsworthy and his art available anywhere.
Fully illustrated, with a revised text. Bibliography and notes.
EXTRACT FROM THE CHAPTER ON GOLDSWORTHY’S LEAFWORKS
It is the leafworks that are the most colourful of Andy Goldsworthy’s sculptures. What the leaf sculptures show is how beautiful the colours of nature are: Goldsworthy shows the viewer these subtle colours by contrasting one leaf with another. Maple patch grouped the red/ orange/ yellow of Japanese maple leaves together; Poppy leaves contrasted the red poppy leaves against the mid-green of an elderberry bush; a Stone Wood sculpture of 1992 consisted of poppy leaves wrapped around a hazel branch, the red constrasting vividly with the wet green leaves; Dock Leaves interwove red leaves in green grass stalks. Two sycamore leafworks of 1980 and 1981 are very simple: a leaf black from cow shit is placed against pale Autumn leaves; another leaf, bleached white, is set down on a bed of dark leaves. He pins together two colours of sycamore leaves (sycamore is a favourite Goldsworthy medium) in Sycamore leaf sections (1988), and hangs the line of leaves from a tree. Shot with the sun behind them, the photograph of the leaves shows them glowing green and gold, the two classic colours of poetry and alchemy. The Autumnal colours of course connote nostalgia, decadence, sensuality, Romanticism, time passing, the decay of the year, and so on, all those things John Keats wrote about in his ‘Ode: To Autumn’, and in a billion other poets’ art. Goldsworthy’s aim in the leaf pieces, though, draws attention to the fragility and delicacy of leaves, as well as their strength and function. A leaf, after all, is a complex biological factory, so the natural scientists say. ‘There is a whole world in a single leaf’, remarked Goldsworthy. Goldsworthy’s leafworks do not have a scientific agenda. Rather, they celebrate the presence of leaves, the being-in-the-world of leaves, so to speak.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
William Malpas has written books on Richard Long and land art, as well as three books on Andy Goldsworthy, including the forthcoming Andy Goldsworthy In America. Malpas’s books on Richard Long and Andy Goldsworthy are the only full-length studies of these artists available.
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AN ESSENTIAL BOOK, Dec 4 2009
By Jeremy Robinson - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Art of Andy Goldsworthy: Complete Works: Special Edition (Paperback)
This is the *only book* you'll find on the work of Andy Goldsworthy. And I really do mean the ONLY book in the world. If you are studying Goldsworthy's sculpture at school or college, this is the only book around to help you. Otherwise, you have to track down individual articles from newspapers and magazines, which can take forever.The author is clearly a huge fan of Andy Goldsworthy's art, and writes lovingly and at length on this amazing artist. He gathers together an enormous amount of background material, and compares Goldsworthy with most of his contemoprary artists.
Andy Goldsworthy is a very prolific artist, and it can a good deal of time and patience to keep up with him - The Art of Andy Goldsworthy covers all of his major works, from his early days as a student in the North of England, to his latest pieces, which now stretch across the world.
I also found William Malpas's writing style easy to read and understand. He does employ some more unusual theoretical approaches - such as Goddess art, or the use of British poetry to offer correspondences to Goldsworthy's sculptures.
The book gathers together some intriguing illustrations, too, including lesser-known works by Goldsworthy and his contemporaries. There are many works by Goldsworthy that you might not know about, but the author has done all of the research required to find pretty much every single piece of work that Goldsworthy has produced since he starting making art in late 1970s.
If you like Andy Goldsworhy's art and are studying it, you simply have to have this book. You can search and search, but there are no other books like this readily available.
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DRY AND DISORGANIZED, Nov 17 2006
By Andrea - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: The Art of Andy Goldsworthy: Complete Works: Special Edition (Paperback)
I wrote my Master's thesis on Andy Goldsworthy, and can honestly say after taking over 25 art history courses that this is one of the worst books I have ever read. I hate to be so harsh, and do admire the ambition of the author to encompass many aspects of Goldsworthy in an effort to contextualize him within Minimalism, Land Art, photography, and other discourses. Malpas has collected a great amount of information and considered Goldsworthy's approach, forms and effects. There is useful information in this book, but unfortunately it suffers from a very inadequete editor. The text is full of typos and is frankly painful to read-at many points Malpas simply lists artists or authors. It is a great rough draft and has the potential to be a great book, but by all means do not spend more than $5 to procure a copy. Most of the other resources on Goldsworthy are written by the artist himself, which has advanatages and disadvantages. For the best overview of his processes and motivations, I suggest Hand to Earth, or the excellent documentary Rivers and Tides.On a related issue, Malpas' book is published by Crescent Moon, a sister company to Ocean Magic Entertainment, which produces documentaries. These companies are run by amateurs in the worst possible way. The Goldsworthy documentary produced by Ocean Magic, and another on Land Art, show only a few actual works; most of the footage consists of close-ups of books (in particular the Phaidon survey). I paid over $60 for these documentaries but was unable to use them for a course I taught on Environmental Art. Funny, the best review of this Goldsworthy book (below) is written by the owner of this company!
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