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Passage: Andy Goldsworthy

Passage: Andy Goldsworthy

by Anne L. StraussSimon Schama Susan Lubowsky Talbott and others
Hardback
Publication Date: 04/10/2004

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Passage is an eloquent testament to Andy Goldsworthy's determination to both deepen and extend his understanding of the world around him and his relationship with it through his art.

The journeys that people, rivers, landscapes and even stone take through space and time are central to this book. A cairn built at the entrance to the village in Scotland where Goldsworthy lives reveals the importance of his work close to home, which inspires so much that he then creates elsewhere. Three similar cairns now span the United States, marking the artist's own journey across the States as well as the culmination of a form that has long played a significant part in his work.

Works involving elm trees made near his home exemplify his work's vigorous beauty as well as its association with death and decay, here made more poignant by the knowledge that so few elms have survived disease.

Goldsworthy's works on the beach and in rivers, which change in response to the ebb and flow of water, continue his exploration of the passage of time, while a path in Sussex, intended to be walked by moonlight, investigates the impact of light upon the sculpture and place, and the passing from day into night.

Passage also includes Goldsworthy's most recent commission, the Garden of Stones, a Holocaust memorial at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York. Here eighteen oak trees were planted in earth-filled boulders, growing in almost impossible circumstances, carry powerful symbolic meaning.
ISBN:
9780500511916
9780500511916
Category:
Sculpture
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
04-10-2004
Publisher:
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
168
Dimensions (mm):
286x260x23mm
Weight:
1.53kg
Simon Schama

Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University. His award-winning books, translated into fifteen languages, include Citizens, Landscape and Memory, Rembrandt's Eyes, A History of Britain, The Power of Art, Rough Crossings, The American Future, The Face of Britain and The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words (1000 BCE - 1492).

His art columns for the New Yorker won the National Magazine Award for criticism and his journalism has appeared regularly in the Guardian and the Financial Times where he is Contributing Editor.

He has written and presented more than fifty films for the BBC on subjects as diverse as Tolstoy, American politics, and The Story of the Jews and is co-presenter of a new landmark series on the history of world art, Civilisations.

Richard Dorment

Richard Dorment has had a distinguished career as historian, scholar, journalist and exhibition curator. He was the Chief Art Critic at The Daily Telegraph from 1986 until his retirement in 2015.

Among his many publications are catalogues of exhibitions that have been seen in London, Paris and Washington DC. A frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, his work has appeared in the Burlington Magazine, The Times Literary Supplement, and Literary Review. In 2014 he was awarded a CBE for Services to the Arts.

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