Andy Goldsworthy: Stone

By Andy Goldsworthy

Andy Goldsworthy is an extraordinarily innovative British artist who employs a range of natural materials — leaves, bark, twigs, petals, berries, rock, clay, stones, feathers, snow, and ice — to create outdoor sculptures that work instinctively in nature. His range of scale is impressive, from grasses and leaves to ice spires and slate stacks. Much of his art is ephemeral: what has been drawn from nature will eventually merge with it again.

Here is an arresting look at Goldsworthy creating art that uses slate, limestone, river boulders, sand, mud, and clay. Stone reflects his increasingly strong conviction that the places in which he works are as essential a part of his art as that which he creates.

130 full-color photographs.

Abrams,1994, hardcover, 10.75 x 0.75 x 12.5 inches, 120 pages.

Andy Goldsworthy is a British artist, living in Scotland, known for his site-specific installations involving natural materials and the passage of time. Working as both sculptor and photographer, Goldsworthy crafts his installations out of rocks, ice, leaves, or branches, cognizant that the landscape will change, then carefully documents the ephemeral collaborations with nature through photography. “It's not about art,” he has explained. “It's just about life and the need to understand that a lot of things in life do not last.” 

• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎978-0810938472
• Item Weight ‏ :2.55 pounds