{"title":"William Malpas","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"land-art-in-the-u-s-a-complete-guide-to-landscape-environmental-earthworks-nature-sculpture-and-installation-art-in-the-united-states-paperback","title":"Land Art in the U.S.: A Complete Guide to Landscape, Environmental, Earthworks, Nature, Sculpture and Installation Art in the United States - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLAND ART IN THE U.S.A.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA new study of land art in America, featuring all of the well-known land artists from the 'golden age' of land art - the 1960s - to the present day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFully illustrated, with a bibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEXTRACT FROM THE CHAPTER ON ROBERT SMITHSON\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Smithson is the key land artist, the premier artist in the world of land art. And he's been a big favourite with art critics since the early Seventies. Smithson was the chief mouthpiece of American earth\/ site  sthetics, and is probably the most important artist among all land artists.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor Robert Smithson, Carl Andre, Walter de Maria, Michael Heizer, Dennis Oppenheim and Tony Smith were 'the more compelling artists today, concerned with 'Place' or 'Site''. Smithson was impressed by Tony Smith's vision of the mysterious aspects of a dark unfinished road and called Smith 'the agent of endlessness'. Smith's  sthetic became part of Smithson's view of art as a complete 'site', not simply an  sthetic of sculptural objects. Smithson was not inspired by ancient religious sculpture, by burial mounds, for example, so much as by decayed industrial sites. He visited some in the mid-1960s that were 'in some way disrupted or pulverized'. He said he was looking for a 'denaturalization rather than built up scenic beauty'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Smithson said he was concerned, like many land (and contemporary artists with the thing in itself, not its image, its effect, its critical significance: 'I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation'. Smithson's theory of the 'non-site' was based on 'absence, a very ponderous, weighty absence'. Smithson proposed a theory of a dialectic between absence and presence, in which the 'non-site' and 'site' are both interacting. In the 'non-site' work, presence and absence are there simultaneously. 'The land or ground from the Site is placed in the art (Non-Site) rather than the art is placed on the ground. The Non-Site is a container within another container - the room'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam 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. Malpas's books on Richard Long and Andy Goldsworthy are the only full-length studies of these artists available.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51212613058783,"sku":"9781861712400","price":43.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/xJoe0gK2h89781861712400.webp?v=1786971123"},{"product_id":"the-art-of-andy-goldsworthy-hardcover","title":"The Art of Andy Goldsworthy - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eTHE ART OF ANDY GOLDSWORTHY \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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. The book has been completely rewritten and brought up to date for this new edition. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Andy Goldsworthy makes land or earth art out of, among other materials, stacks of rocks, or stalks tied together, or mud thrown into rivers or poppy petals wrapped around boulders. His art is a sensitive, intuitive response to nature, light, time, growth, the seasons and the earth. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Fully illustrated, with a revised text. Bibliography and notes. 348pp. ISBN 9781861714106. www.crmoon.com \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e EXTRACT FROM THE CHAPTER ON GOLDSWORTHY'S LEAFWORKS \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e It is the leafworks that are the most colourful of Andy Goldsworthy's sculptures. What the leaf sculptures show is how beautiful the colours of nature are: Goldsworthy presents the viewer with these subtle colours by contrasting one leaf with another. 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. Two sycamore leafworks of 1980 and 1981 are very simple: a leaf black from cows is placed against pale Autumn leaves; another leaf, bleached white, is set down on a bed of dark leaves. 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. 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. The Fall colours of course connote nostalgia, decadence, sensuality, Romanticism, time passing, the decay of the year, and so on. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e REVIEW ON AMAZON \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A happily received gift. It's worth the price for one who wants a scholarly while earthy (sorry, couldn't help it) approach to the work. There's a quirkiness about the writing style that is engaging and honest. 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e REVIEW ON AMAZON \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e This is a chatty informational book. It has stories of many artists that have been associated with Andy Goldsworthy in his long career as a contemporary nature sculptor. If you are looking for a personal history this is a book for you. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e REVIEW ON AMAZON \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e I'm no expert on visual art, nor would I claim to be, but I found this to be a useful book, and the only one I've been able to find about the work of Andy Goldsworthy. The author has taken the time to round up a large amount of varied source material which makes this book well worth seeking out.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51212887294175,"sku":"9781861714114","price":86.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/1HeydT7zZT9781861714114.webp?v=1786978327"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/william-malpas.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}