Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #347419 in Books
• Published on: 1993-09-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 196 pages

From Booklist
We were awed by Andy Goldsworthy's magical organic sculptures several years ago upon publication of his A Collaboration with Nature (1990), and we're just as uplifted now by the experience of reading this retrospective volume and studying its startling photographs. Goldsworthy makes impossibly delicate structures out of leaves, sticks, stones, ice, and mud. Many of his creations are ephemeral, at the mercy of wind and rain, and he's even made spontaneous sculptures that can exist only in photographs, such as the patterns that occur when he tosses armfuls of leaves up against the sky or whomps the surface of a river with a large branch to create rainbows. He fashions both fragile, small-scale objects and immense earthworks, constructions as simple as a circle of twigs or as complex as huge cones of stacked slate. This collection of photographs, both by the artist and of him at work, essays, artist's statements, and interviews, including one by the British author John Fowles, extends our understanding of Goldsworthy's images, inspirations, and magical processes. Donna Seaman

Customer Reviews

If you don't have one of his books you should.
If you've ever wondered at the line " I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree." Andy Goldsworthy can help. His sculptures created from nature (ferns, ice, poppy petals, etc.) are some of the most breathtaking compositions I have ever seen. This is a grteat primer book on him. It has a little of all his work from his "holes" to "arches". While not as lush and detailed as some of his other books, they are usually more focused and take a specific angle on his work. (eg. wood, stone, arches) This book is rich with information though, and a great grab bag of his work. Buy this book, find out what you like and buy more. I promise you wont be dissapointed.

Excellent images and words
I borrowed this from our library, having seen the Rivers and Tides video and purchased "A Collaboration with Nature." The reason I like this particular edition better is that there are many essays and a lot of reference and bilbiographical material in this one. "Collaboration" is almost 100% images (and excellent ones they are) but this volume gives a lot more insight into his methods, and the amazing range of his work. Ideally, I would recommend both books.
Keep in mind too that
Disclaimer: I haven't yet seen the "single-word" titled series published in the 00s, but I'm eager to see what he's been up to since 1990 (when this volume was published) and 2001 (when Rivers and Tides was released.)