Sculpting the Earth (Hardcover, New Edition)

As a land artist Strijdom van der Merwe uses the materials provided by the chosen site. His sculptural forms take shape in relation to the landscape. It is a process of working with the natural world using sand, water, wood and rocks, he shapes these elements into geometrical forms that participate with their environment, continually changing until their final probable destruction. He observes the fragility of beauty while not lamenting its passing. What remains is a photographic image, a fragment of the imagination. While a visual record is materially all that is left, he also leaves us a reminder of the capacity, however feeble, of an individual to alter the universe by embracing the ceaseless changing of nature, actively contributing to it and in so doing, modulating and beautifying the outcome.

General

Imprint:	Protea Boekhuis
Country of origin:	South Africa
Release date:	February 2012
First published:	March 2012
Authors:	Strijdom van der Merwe
Dimensions:	222 x 234 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	184
Edition:	New Edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-86919-485-7
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > Art styles, 1960 - > Conceptual art Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Individual artists > General
LSN:	1-86919-485-3
Barcode:	9781869194857

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