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Whether measured in minutes or eons, time is a good friend of British artist Andy Goldsworthy's. He spends long, solitary days outdoors in all kinds of weather, doing things like piecing together many, many yellow leaves to create a brilliant band of color at a river's edge in upstate New York or stacking small pieces of ice on the Nova Scotia coast to build a sculpture in the compact shape of an ancient stone monument. Threatened by a strong gust of wind, the incoming tide, or a sudden rise in temperature, these are fugitive works comfortably in synch with the natural rhythms of growth and decay.
Other works of his are longer-lasting. In walls made of stacked stones with hollowed-out oval "chambers" the size of his body--which he began building in 1999 in Lancashire, England--Goldsworthy makes reference not only to the shapes of graves in a nearby church but also to his personal history in the region and the enduring qualities of a rugged landscape.
Goldsworthy is the rare artist who can describe what he does in simple, concrete terms that nonetheless reveal his larger vision. Time is a very satisfying collection of 500 photographs, nearly all taken by him, that document the creation and subsequent mutations of his work. These evocative images are illuminated by excerpts from the diaries he kept as he created five projects in Europe and North America in the '90s. He discusses what it's like to explore an unfamiliar landscape, assess how the elements will work for and against him, and perform what are essentially a set of experiments. Success means making work that is, as he writes, "completely welded to its site." --Cathy Curtis
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great
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The friends that I sent this book to are both artists. They LOVED it.
Fantabulous!
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As a sculptor myself I can truely admire what effort goes into each of Andy's environmental works. In some he works with nature and others against but always with respect of the materials used. Truely inspiring and a wonderful narative style of writing which makes you feel like you were there when the works were created!
Amazing photos - great complement to the DVD "Rivers and Tides"
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I had viewed the DVD "Rivers and Tides" which is a tour of Andy Goldsworthy's artistic endeavors. It is very compelling and left a lasting impression. I wanted more and discovered, to my delight, that a large number of Andy's creations shown in the DVD were documented in the book "Time". There had to be photographs of Andy's work since most of them are not permanent in either time or space. In the DVD, we see the creation process as it occurs and then it may dissolve or move. In the book, it is "frozen" in time and space and can be appreciated as a work of art. I recommend seeing the DVD first so the book's contents can be appreciated even more.
Nature inspiration
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Andy Goldsworthy's work inspires me to look at nature in a very deep way. His use of the environment and natural materials provokes me to look at how I can incorporate more natural materials into my own work. I am in awe everytime I open up the book and look at the images. I especially like red clay and the way it went through it's own process through time. a gem, a timeless exploration of our natural world!
What a work of creative and artistic genius!
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What a work of creative and artistic genius!
What to say about such an amazing work? For the first few times I mainly absorbed the photos of his works, with only reading the little captions and it wiped me off my feet. After a few rounds of these I decided to read all of the writing in the book that accompany the works he made and it totally blew me away. This book has definitely altered something deep inside about the way Ilook at nature, change, the seasons and time in general.
Time, as the title of the book suggests is the main topic of the book and Andy Goldsworthy's art in general or at least his approach and intention towards it. The body of work presented in numerous photos and with corresponding writing in the form of a journal covers the whole range Goldsworthy's work. For example works made from stone, wood, leaves, snow, ice,...
As a result it gives an excellent overview and introduction of his work and via the numerous writings a very deep, personal and detailed insight into how he approaches different places, how he reacts to change and works with the weather. The writing is on par with his work. Very clear, direct, honest and poetic.
His insight into the concepts of time and change and seasons and nature is truly breath taking. The introduction he wrote for the book is a wonderful example illustrating this. Part of it can be read by using the "Look inside the book" feature of Amazon.
Spending time with this book really cracks ones mind wide open about time, change, nature and seasons and how to look at it and perceive it.
And honestly I don't know what's more amazing. These amazing and unbelievable pieces of art. Or the incredibly crisp and poetic writing, deepening so much ones understanding of the works and give insight into Goldsworthys view and approach and thoughts. Or simply that out there somewhere a human being is walking this earth with such an amazing understanding of time and nature and able to transform this into amazing art an writing.
If the idea of Goldsworthys work is for him to work with time and change and nature and to further his awareness of these concepts and make sense of them in the most beautiful way then that is exactly what this book excells marvelously at for the reader.
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