This is a coffee table book from the late eighties.

Goldsworthy is an amazing artist leading a wild lifestyle due to his medium. He creates sometime-ephemeral works in a landscape with the materials he finds there. This is a book, consisting primarily of self-shot photos of his works in the late seventies and eighties.

In reading it, I find myself wondering—why isn't this a more common kind of art? When we think of artists we think of painters, photographers, sculptures. Goldsworthy combines some of these skills, but in a very different way.

There is also a documentary about Goldsworthy's work from the late nineties—"Rivers and Tides"—that nicely accompanies this book.

This very book has been sitting at my parents' house since I was a child, and I've come across it a number of times this summer at the houses of friends. I'm currently taking a course called "Depth Ecology and Wild Ethics," which prompted me to pick it up again and give it a full read-through. Much recommended. ( )

Following up on watching Rivers and Tides. And loving every page. ( )

-the next best thing to seeing Goldsworthy in the round
-probably environmental art's greatest contributor ( )

Love Goldsworthy's manipulation of nature into beautiful design. The movie on Goldsworthy is worth the time.... ( )

http://bactra.org/reviews/goldsworthy-collaboration/ ( )