Passage by Andy Goldsworthy Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Passage
Book Review: Incredible
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is BREATHTAKING. I've admired Goldsworthy's simple yet stunning nature-mimics-nature for a few years now, but this book managed to blow me away.
Much of the photographs are devoted to the use of light on his works. Shadows, times of day (or year!), reflections, and the passage of light make astounding changes in his works.
Goldsworthy includes his notes and journal entries for the works, explaining his goals, emotions, and reactions to the process. A valuable look into the works, but also into the artist himself and his thoughts.
Book Review: Passage by Andy Goldsworthy
Summary: 5 Stars
This is not just a book. It is a journey through the extraordinarily creative mind of an artist who makes the natural world come alive by making us look at the shapes, colours and textures of simple objects in a completely new way. Rocks, river pebbles,leaves, sand and ice come alive as Goldsworthy arranges them in ways which at times challenge our perceptions.
His installations are frequently temporary and ephemeral but are captured forever through his beautiful photography. Some of his works, including his cairns and stone arches are more substantial and his images give us a sense of time and season as he captures them across the year.
Goldsworthy, who now lives in Moniaive in a lovely rural part of Dumfriesshire, Scotland, is an artist whose work allows an increasingly urbanised world to see nature in a different way. He provides a lens through which we can appreciate its beauty in a focused way.
If you do not own this book, go and buy it.
Book Review: Pulls reader into process of creation!
Summary: 4 Stars
PASSAGE includes everything an interested reader could want: ample beautiful imagery, photographs of how finished pieces progress over time, photographs of original pieces being constructed, concurrent journal entries by Goldsworthy, commentary by various museum curators..
This book communicates beautifully perhaps the most necessary aspect of Goldsworthy's work, one that could not be transmitted merely through photos of his finished pieces. Goldsworthy's art, while accessing relationship with nature, also represents respect of, and submission to, time. It has always amazed me, and I imagine has had similar impact on many others, how much time and care is dedicated to the construction of such beautiful pieces and yet how easily they are allowed to be blown away or washed over or changed in whatever way by the powers that be. And yet, if it were not so, if his pieces were memorialized indefinitely, protected from natural wear and tear, their beauty would be somehow reduced. For it is in this release and acceptance of what must occur, that their power lies.
PASSAGE succeeds in portraying both aspects, relationship with nature and submission to time, through use of various tools, all mentioned in the 1st paragraph. As its title suggests, PASSAGE involves the reader in the process of Goldsworthy's art, from its conception to creation to change and destruction.
I rated this book only 4 stars because a part of me would have preferred more photos and fewer words. A picture speaks a thousand, as you know, and for those who are already familiar with Goldsworthy's amazing work, an inspiring photo of nature cannot but speak of its impermanence.
Book Review: amazing
Summary: 5 Stars
The pictures in this book are once again amazing - and also very touching. It's easy to forget the time when you flip through this book and read the artist's remarks about certain works. The artist is simply a genius.Book Review: as always,
Summary: 5 Stars
excellent. the fleeting caught whenever one wishes. Goldsworthy is
always worth considered thoughts no matter how simple his art may seem...
the sum is greater than its parts...and it is lovely.
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