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Andy Goldsworthy, David Craig
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Pages: 80 (Hardcover)
ISBN: 0810919931
Pub: Harry N. Abrams
Pub date: 1999-05
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 405188
Reader Reviews:
Excursion (1/3 people found this helpful)
If you "don't get" contemporary art, you'll hate this book. If you do enjoy the broad metaphors and wide open spaces of meaning of late 20th-early 21st Century art then you will like this book. Saatchi free and using real men's tools - hammer, chisel and Land Rover, Andy Goldsworthy creates a gentle but profound stir by taking an arch of sandstone on the road and erecting it in a variety of significant locations.
Photography is the way this event was recorded - without the images, only those who were there would have known what happened. The book is the way the event is expressed to those who were not there. The event was the Arch - it's creation and rebirth at each location.
There is a strong-handed feel to this book - as if a less than comprehending child were being shown something very important by a kindly father. I like it for many different reasons but I do like it - story, document, experiment, dare whatever. This is the first book of Andy Goldsworthy's that I've owned. It won't be the last.
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