It has stories of many artists that have been associated with Andy Goldsworthy in his long career as a contemporary nature sculptor. REVIEW ON AMAZONThis is a chatty informational book. I'm glad I have the book and will reread it as I purchase other books on Goldsworthy where the work is shown via great photography. There's a quirkiness about the writing style that is engaging and honest. It's worth the price for one who wants a scholarly while earthy (sorry, couldn't help it) approach to the work. Malpas's books on Richard Long and Andy Goldsworthy are the only full-length studies of these artists available. AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY William Malpas has written books on Richard Long and land art, as well as three books on Andy Goldsworthy, including the forthcoming Andy Goldsworthy In America. Shot with the sun behind them, the photograph of the leaves shows them glowing green and gold, the two classic colours of poetry and alchemy. He pins together two colours of sycamore leaves (sycamore is a favourite Goldsworthy medium) in Sycamore leaf sections (1988), and hangs the line of leaves from a tree. Two sycamore leafworks of 19 are very simple: a leaf black from cow shit is placed against pale Autumn leaves another leaf, bleached white, is set down on a bed of dark leaves. Maple patch grouped the red/ orange/ yellow of Japanese maple leaves together Poppy leaves contrasted the red poppy leaves against the mid-green of an elderberry bush a Stone Wood sculpture of 1992 consisted of poppy leaves wrapped around a hazel branch, the red constrasting vividly with the wet green leaves Dock Leaves interwove red leaves in green grass stalks. What the leaf sculptures show is how beautiful the colours of nature are: Goldsworthy shows the viewer these subtle colours by contrasting one leaf with another. EXTRACT FROM THE CHAPTER ON GOLDSWORTHY'S LEAFWORKS It is the leafworks that are the most colourful of Andy Goldsworthy's sculptures. THE ART OF ANDY GOLDSWORTHY This is the most comprehensive and detailed study of British artist Andy Goldsworthy, and is the only full-length exploration of Goldsworthy and his art available anywhere.
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