Photographs of fleeting sculptures made from leaves, ice, stones and twigs by a celebrated British artist
Art made from nature itself
Andy Goldsworthy is a British artist who works outdoors with whatever nature provides: leaves, petals, ice, snow, stones, sticks, thorns and mud. Many of his works last only minutes or hours before they melt, blow away or are washed by the tide. This book presents color photographs he took of his works, along with his own short notes about how and why they were made.
Who will enjoy it
Artists, art lovers, photographers, teachers and nature lovers looking for inspiration and a new way of seeing the natural world.
What you will get
A beautiful, inspiring book that changes the way you look at leaves, stones and ice, and invites you to see the patterns and possibilities in nature.
Andy Goldsworthy: A Collaboration with Nature Facts: Pages, Genre and Setting
Genre
Nonfiction · Land art · Sculpture · Photography
Length
120 pages · ≈ 4 h
More about this book
The works in the book were made in many places, including the fields and woods near his home, beaches, rivers, the Arctic and Japan. There are lines of leaves arranged by color from green to yellow to red, delicate chains of leaves floating on a stream, icicles fused together into spirals in freezing weather, holes made of layered stones, stacked rocks balanced on the shore and patterns of petals on water. Each is photographed at its best moment, often just before it changes or disappears.
Goldsworthy's short notes, written in a direct and practical way, record the date, place and materials, and sometimes the frustrations: the leaves that blew away, the ice that cracked, the tide that came in too soon. He sees change and decay as part of the work rather than its failure. The book is mostly visual, with few words, and it can be enjoyed slowly, a page at a time. Many readers find it inspires them to make small works of their own on walks or with children.
Beautiful, calming and inspiring. About 120 pages in the Abrams hardcover.
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