Andy Goldsworthy : a collaboration with nature

Andy Goldsworthy takes whatever he finds in nature and creates amazing works of art. Where we might see stones, brightly colored leaves, sticks, whatever, Andy sees patterns. Stones can be crushed for pigment. Leaves are arranged in a serpentine pattern. A beautiful book.

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LibraryThing member mamorico

Our favorite contemporary artist. Andy Goldsworthy uses natural objects as his subjects and manipulates them in interesting ways. His pieces often seems to be an exercise in obsessive compulsive behavior but the end result can be breathtaking.

LibraryThing member Gregorio_Roth

Love Goldsworthy's manipulation of nature into beautiful design. The movie on Goldsworthy is worth the time....

LibraryThing member mykl-s

-the next best thing to seeing Goldsworthy in the round
-probably environmental art's greatest contributor

LibraryThing member willszal

This is a coffee table book from the late eighties.

Goldsworthy is an amazing artist leading a wild lifestyle due to his medium. He creates sometime-ephemeral works in a landscape with the materials he finds there. This is a book, consisting primarily of self-shot photos of his works in the late

seventies and eighties.

In reading it, I find myself wondering—why isn't this a more common kind of art? When we think of artists we think of painters, photographers, sculptures. Goldsworthy combines some of these skills, but in a very different way.

There is also a documentary about Goldsworthy's work from the late nineties—"Rivers and Tides"—that nicely accompanies this book.

This very book has been sitting at my parents' house since I was a child, and I've come across it a number of times this summer at the houses of friends. I'm currently taking a course called "Depth Ecology and Wild Ethics," which prompted me to pick it up again and give it a full read-through. Much recommended.

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