[Crescent Moon Publishing]
Kategoria: Książki / Literatura obcojęzyczna
LAND ART IN THE U.K. A new book on land art in Great
Britain. There are chapters on land artists such as Chris Drury,
Hamish Fulton, David Nash, Richard Long and Andy
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LAND ART IN THE U.K. A new book on land art in Great Britain. There
are chapters on land artists such as Chris Drury, Hamish Fulton,
David Nash, Richard Long and Andy Goldsworthy. All of the major
practitioners of land and environmental art in the U.K. are
discussed. EXTRACT FROM THW CHAPTER ON ANDY GOLDSWORTHY One wonders
whether Andy Goldsworthy would like to work in snow and ice more
than in any other medium. In temperate snowlands one feels
Goldsworthy is very much at home. Snow has all the right sorts of
qualities Goldsworthy looks for in a material: it is malleable, it
melts and changes, its whiteness makes for good, contrasty imagery
photographically, and it seasonally alters the landscape, and later
dissolves into it. In Goldsworthy's snowworks one senses also the
sheer fun working with snow. For people in most of Britain, snow is
not a occurrence each year, as it is in, say, Northern Russia or
Alaska. Snow can be an exciting event (but British adults usually
gripe it). Snow was a perennial delight and 'shock' for
Goldsworthy. In Midsummer Snowballs he wrote that '[e]ven in winter
each snowfall is a shock, unpredictable and unexpected.'
Goldsworthy retained the child-like enjoyment of snow falling in
Britain throughout his life. While much of the U.K. grinds to a
halt at the sight of a snowflake, Goldsworthy has the child's joy
when it snows (school's cancelled, snowball fights, ice skating,
sledging, and making snowmen and snowballs). Andy Goldsworthy
speaks in wonder and awe of 'the effect, the excitement' of the
first snowfall. Some of this excitement comes across in
Goldsworthy's snowworks. He has made, for example, patterns in the
snow by rolling a snowball around a field, exactly as kids do when
it snows (1982 and 1987). Some of Goldsworthy's earliest works with
snow were large snowballs. In some of these early snow pieces,
Goldsworthy placed snowballs in areas such as woods and fields
which didn't have any snow, so the snowballs stood out in the trees
and grass (as in Ilkley, Yorkshire, 1981).
