Synopses & Reviews
Andy Goldsworthy's
Passage focuses on the journeys that people, rivers, landscapes, and even stones take through space and time. A cairn made by the renowned sculptor in the Scottish village where he lives reveals the influence that his work close to home has on projects he creates elsewhere. A series involving elm trees, from glowing yellow leaves to dead branches, exemplifies his work's vigorous beauty as well as its association with death and decay. Creations on the beach and in rivers explore the passage of time, while a white chalk path investigates the passing from day into night.
Passage also includes the Garden of Stones, a Holocaust memorial at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York, where the artist planted 18 oak trees through holes in hollowed-out, earth-filled boulders. Documenting these and other recent works, this beautiful book is an eloquent testament to Goldsworthy's determination to deepen his understanding of the world around him, and his relationship with it, through his art.
Synopsis
- Passage is the first book by Goldsworthy to appear since the release of Rivers and Tides, the award-winning documentary feature film about him. The immense success of the film has brought Goldsworthy many more admirers to swell the already large audience for his work.
- The book focuses exclusively on sculpture made by Goldsworthy since the turn of the millennium.
- These evocative images will be illuminated by diary entries that chart his experiences working in Scotland and abroad.
- The first book to commemorate Goldsworthy's most publicized recent commission, the Garden of Stones, a memorial to the Holocaust, at the Museum of Jewish heritage in New York (on which an essay by Simon Schama with photographs by Richard Avedon appeared in The New Yorker in fall 2003).
- This book is being released at the same time as the paperback reissue of Goldsworthy's Hand to Earth. The two make a strong pair.
About the Author
Andy Goldsworthy's work is regularly exhibited in Britain, France, the United States, Japan, and elsewhere. Although commissions take him all over the world, the landscape around his home in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, remains at the heart of his work. Goldsworthy's best-selling books for Abrams include A Collaboration with Nature, Time, Stone, Wall, and Wood. Terry Friedman is an architectural historian and former principal keeper of Leeds City Art Gallery and Henry Moore Centre for the Study of Sculpture in Leeds, England. He curated the first major retrospective of Goldsworthy's work, in 1990.