Andy Goldsworthy Ephemeral Works

Author : Andy Goldsworthy
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 1419717790

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Andy Goldsworthy: Ephemeral Works by Andy Goldsworthy Pdf

For forty years, Andy Goldsworthy has worked with an extraordinary range of natural materials, often at their source. On an almost daily basis, he makes works of art using the materials and conditions that he encounters wherever he is, be it the land around his Scottish home, the mountain regions of France or Spain, or the pavements of New York City, Glasgow, or Rio de Janeiro. Out of earth, rocks, leaves, ice, snow, rain, sunlight and shadow he makes artworks that exist briefly before they are altered and erased by natural processes. They are documented in his photographs, and their larger meanings are bound up with the conditions, forces and processes that they embody: materiality, temporality, growth, vitality, permanence, decay, chance, labour and memory. Ephemeral Works features approximately two hundred of these works, selected by Goldsworthy from thousands he has made between 2001 and the present, and arranged in chronological sequence, capturing his creative process as it interacts with material, place, and the passage of time and seasons.

Author : Andy Goldsworthy
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 1419722220

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Andy Goldsworthy: Projects by Andy Goldsworthy Pdf

Includes an interview with the artist by Tina Fiske.

Author : Andy Goldsworthy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004-11
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015059322993

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Passage by Andy Goldsworthy Pdf

Creations on the beaches and in rivers explore the passage of time, while a white chalk path investigates the passing from day into night. "Passage" focuses exclusively on such sculpture made by artist Goldsworthy since the turn of the millennium. These evocative images are illuminated by diary entries that chart his experiences working in Scotland and abroad. 0-8109-5586-5$60.00 / Harry N. Abrams, Inc.

Author : Terry Friedman,Andy Goldsworthy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Earthworks (Art)
ISBN : 090128629X

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Hand to Earth by Terry Friedman,Andy Goldsworthy Pdf

Andy Goldsworthy is one of the leading British sculptors working with nature in the landscape. This work on Andy Goldsworthy combines illustrations and specially commissioned essays by writers familiar with the artist and his work.

Author : Molly Donovan,Tina Fisk
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-30
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780500238714

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The Andy Goldsworthy Project by Molly Donovan,Tina Fisk Pdf

The first significant scholarly volume devoted to Goldsworthy's work in nearly twenty years and the first to underscore the permanent output of this acclaimed artist. In January 2003 British sculptor Andy Goldsworthy was invited to create a work of art for the National Gallery of Art. The project began with a series of ephemeral works on Government Island in Stafford County, Virginia. From this phase a series of photographic suites and a diary remain. The second phase of the project resulted in Roof, a permanent, site-specific sculpture at the National Gallery comprising nine stacked-slate domes installed over the course of nine weeks by Goldsworthy, his assistant, and a group of British drystone wallers in the winter of 2004-2005. This volume traces the development of Goldsworthy's project at the National Gallery from conception to completion and situates the artist's sculpture and practice within an age-long tradition of structures. It features the only fully illustrated catalogue documenting Goldsworthy's permanent installations-more than 120 works dating from 1984 to 2008 and spanning three continents.

Author : Andy Goldsworthy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2001-11
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015047461119

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Midsummer Snowballs by Andy Goldsworthy Pdf

The only book to document artist Andy Goldsworthy's most astonishing & largest ephemeral work to date -- thirteen huge snowballs, each weighing about a ton -- removed from the wilderness & placed on the streets of London in a unique symbolic confrontation.

Author : Andy Goldsworthy,Terry Friedman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Nature (Aesthetics)
ISBN : 0500515174

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Wood by Andy Goldsworthy,Terry Friedman Pdf

Individual artists, art monographs.

Author : Andy Goldsworthy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2000-05
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015050252017

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Wall by Andy Goldsworthy Pdf

Documents the British photographer's latest artwork -- a 2,278 - foot stone wall at Storm King Arts Center, New York. Stunning color photographs show the wall from every vantage point & in all four seasons, as well as documenting ephemeral work made around it.

Author : Andy Goldsworthy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 0500516014

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Stone by Andy Goldsworthy Pdf

This spectacular book brings together work made by Andy Goldsworthy in Britain, France, the United States, Australia and Japan between 1990 and 1993. It includes works that involve not only stone of various kinds slate, limestone, sandstone, river boulders but also leaves, flowers, sand, clay and scrap steel. A riverside slab of rock in St Louis, Missouri, glows with the colours of autumn leaves, becomes part of a wall, acquires an overall covering of green leaves, and is cradled in a nest of branches. In a forest in the Lake District, a wall snakes its way through the trees. Sandstone arches progress across the floor of a Dumfriesshire quarry. A dead tree in the Australian outback is miraculously clothed in rust-red sand Stone: Andy Goldsworthy offers an unparalleled opportunity to appreciate the extraordinary breadth of the artists output and to understand more about this exceptionally talented sculptor whose work is accorded worldwide recognition.

Author : Andy Goldsworthy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Time in art
ISBN : 0500287503

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Time by Andy Goldsworthy Pdf

Time, always an element in the work of Andy Goldsworthy, both as a medium and as a metaphor, is celebrated in this book. The text is comprised of Goldsworthy's own diaries.

Author : Ben Tufnell
Publisher : Tate
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : UCSC:32106019236840

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Land Art by Ben Tufnell Pdf

A chronology of many histories of Land art, this title begins with the early American masters of the movement, including Robert Smithson, Michael Heizer, Walter De Maria, and James Turrell. While making a thorough study these figures, the author explores the contribution of many key figures such as Richard Long, Jamish Fulton, Giuseppe Penone, Joseph Beuys and Ana Mendieta.

Author : Martin Hill,PQ Blackwell, Ltd.
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781449406332

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Earth to Earth by Martin Hill,PQ Blackwell, Ltd. Pdf

My photographs are made with the same sunlight that powers all the earth's living systems. --Martin Hill * Reminiscent of the internationally best-selling Earth from Above, Martin Hill's Earth to Earth transforms the beauty of everyday items found in nature and elevates them to ecological art. Ecology is a science that is entering its renaissance as issues of global warming, greenhouse emissions, and ozone depletion make their way from scientific debates and newspaper headlines to family breakfast tables. Environmental photographer Martin Hill and project collaborator Philippa Jones visit remote locations around the globe to create a stunning array of evocative photographs that represent a visual circle of life promoting ecological sustainability and responsibility. In addition to an eloquent introduction by Sir Edmund Hillary, ecologically minded quotes and facts appear throughout the collection: * Each day more solar energy falls to the earth than the total amount of energy the planet's six billion inhabitants would consume in 25 years. * What use is a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? In Earth to Earth Hill presents more than 70 transcendent four-color photographs that capture images of natural items found in nature, which he then transforms into exquisitely intricate sculptural masterpieces. Prior to leaving each location--whether at the top of a snow-covered mountain or on the sand-blown shores of a windy beach--Hill ensures that each site is left exactly as it was found.

Author : Andy Goldsworthy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Nature (Aesthetics)
ISBN : UOM:39015041067185

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Sheepfolds by Andy Goldsworthy Pdf

Author : Peter Hutchinson
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1568985614

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Thrown Rope by Peter Hutchinson Pdf

"Much of Hutchinson's beautiful but fleeting work exists only in the photographs presented here, accompanied by his own handwritten notes providing insight, levity, and riddles spanning his more than four-decade career. Essays by fellow artist Bill Beckley and critic Carter Ratcliff round out this long-overdue portrait of one of the most underappreciated artists of our time."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Andy Goldsworthy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0906506042

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Andy Goldsworthy by Andy Goldsworthy Pdf

The materials used in Andy Goldsworthy's art include wild-flowers, icicles, leaves, mud, snow, stone, twigs, and thorns. He has been quoted as saying, 'I think it's incredibly brave to be working with flowers and leaves and petals. But I have to: I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole'. Goldsworthy is considered the founder of modern rock balancing. For his ephemeral works, the artist mostly uses only his bare hands, teeth, and found tools to prepare and arrange the materials; however, for his permanent sculptures such as Chalk Stones in the South Downs, he has also employed the use of machine tools. Photography plays a crucial role in his art due to its often ephemeral and transient state. Goldsworthy says, 'Each work grows, stays, decays - integral parts of a cycle which the photograph shows at its heights, marking the moment when the work is most alive'. This volume is a pictorial testimonial to that epithet.