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ANDY GOLDSWORTHY: POCKET GUIDE

REVISED AND UPDATED, WITH NEW ILLUSTRATIONS

A pocket-sized guide to the art of Andy Goldsworthy, Britian's foremost sculptor of the natural world. This book tells you everything you need to know about Andy Goldsworthy and his artworks. 

EXTRACT FROM CHAPTER 5

Andy Goldsworthy works with the natural world, and within nature. He uses natural materials in natural shapes and forms set in natural contexts. Goldsworthy takes his cue from nature: as Jan Dibbets put it in 1969: 'I realized that if you want to use nature, you have to derive the appropriate structure from nature too'. Nature may be the starting-point but, as we'll see, the endpoint - art - is entirely cultural and not something you'll ever find in the natural world. </P> 

Andy Goldsworthy seems to be a particularly gentle and sensitive artist, compared to many sculptors and land artists: he stitches together leaves to form lines (which're often placed in water, or over branches), or makes circular slabs of snow, or entwines twigs in an arc. He creates a delicate spiral of chestnut leaves, called Autumn Horn (1986); he pins bright yellow dandelions on willowherb stalks in a circle, on bluebells (1987); he makes lines and cairns of pebbles; a horizontal line of red sumach leaves was pinned to a willow (at Storm King Art Center in 1998); he rubs red stones to stain rockpools; he pins leaves to tree trunks; he fashions a zigzag line of hogweed stalks along a fallen elm tree (2002); he makes hollow, circular structures, recalling igloos, from slate, leaves, driftwood and bracken; he creates long wavy ridges in Arizonan and Australian desert sand; he throws sand and sticks in the air and photographs the moment; he builds 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 in 1988, are indeed wonderful. The sculptures exude tranquillity, an early morning calm.  

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

William Malpas has written books on Richard Long and land art, as well as three books on Andy Goldsworthy, including Andy Goldsworthy In America. Malpas's books on Richard Long and Andy Goldsworthy are the only full-length studies of these artists available. 

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements 10

Abbreviations 11

Introduction 21

1 ANDY GOLDSWORTHY: LIFE AND WORK 24

1 : Life • 2 : Works • 3: Critics of Andy Goldsworthy's Art

2 ANDY GOLDSWORTHY AND SCULPTURE IN THE MODERN ERA 43

1 : Andy Goldsworthy and Women Sculptors • 2 : Andy Goldsworthy and Constantin Brancusi • 3 : Light in Goldsworthy's Art

3 ANDY GOLDSWORTHY AND LAND ART 48

1 : The Spirit of Place • 2 : The Pollen Path: Art and Life • 3 : Land Art and Photography • 4 : Interior and Exterior Art • 5 : Land Art and Change • 6 : Land Art and Religion • 7 : Circles • 8 : The British Landscape Tradition

4 LAND ARTISTS IN BRITAIN, EUROPE AND AMERICA 69

1 : Andy Goldsworthy and Land Artists • 2 : Richard Long • 3 : Chris Drury

5 ANDY GOLDSWORTHY 84

6 ANDY GOLDSWORTHY AND PHOTOGRAPHY 97

7 COLOUR AND DECORATION 105

1 : Andy Goldsworthy's Art and Decorative Art • 2 : Colour in Andy Goldsworthy's Art

8 TREES, TIDES, PLANTS AND HOLES 124

1 : Living Plants • 2 : Trees • 3 : The Black Hole • 4 : Tides

9 ANDY GOLDSWORTHY THE SNOW MAN 136

1 : Andy Goldsworthy and Snow • 2 : Touching North • 3 : Snowballs In Summer

10 ANDY GOLDSWORTHY THE GREEN MAN 149

11 INSTALLATIONS AND LARGE-SCALE WORKS 160

1 : Stone and Herd of Arches • 2 : The Capenoch Tree Series • 3 : Large-Scale Works and Installations • 4 : Maze • 5 : Passage • 6 : Garden of Stone • 7 : Cairns • 8 : Three Cairns • 9 : Walls • 10 : Sheepfolds • 11 : Arches • 12 : Digne

12 SPIRITUALITY AND SCULPTURE 206

13 TIME IN ANDY GOLDSWORTHY'S ART 214

List of Works 233

Notes 234

Bibliography 245

Illustrations 255