THE ART OF RICHARD LONG The central fact and act of Richard Long's
art is walking. His work is founded on the art of walking, the act
of walking, the actuality of walking, and on walking as art, as
act, as experience. His walks become 'artwalks', artwalks which
become artworks. Richard Long is a British land artist and sculptor
who works with and in the natural world, but also with and within
the highly sophisticated, artificial and humanmade world of art and
culture. 'I too wanted to make nature the subject of my work, '
Long explained of his early work, 'but in new ways. I started
working outside using natural materials like grass and water, and
this evolved into the idea of making a sculpture by walking'.
Richard Long is sometimes termed a 'Romantic' sculptor, and part of
this book relates his art to British Romanticism, as found in the
literature of William Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats
and others, and the British landscape tradition, as in J.M.W.
Turner, John Constable, Thomas Girtin and other landscape painters.
Aspects of British Romantic culture in 20th century and 21st
century art also considered (such as the 'New Ruralists', 'New
Romantics', 'New Arcadians' and 'Neo-Romantics'). Malpas also
explore some of the aspects of Romantic culture in Europe as well
as Britain. In the course of this book William Malpas references
many of Richard Long's contemporary British sculptors (Tony Cragg,
Bill Woodrow, David Nash, Barry Flanagan, Alison Wilding, Shirazeh
Houshiary, Hamish Fulton, Anthony Caro, Anish Kapoor and Anthony
Gormley). Further chapters include: one on women, feminist, body
art and performance sculptors, as a comparison with Richard Long's
art, which has a strong component of performance (even if it's
nearly always private). In the chapter on Minimal, Conceptual,
Process and other 1960s and post-1960s art and artists, I'm
interested in the artists (primarily European and American) who
have most in common with Long's art: the great Minimal and land
artists, such as Donald Judd, Carl Andre, Dennis Oppenheim and
James Turrell, and the important Conceptual artists, such as Bruce
Nauman, Yves Klein and Lawrence Weiner. Fully illustrated, with a
newly revised text. Bibliography and notes. www.crmoon.com AUTHOR'S
NOTE: This is a revised edition of a book first published back in
1994. It includes information of the more recent exhibitions and
artworks of Richard Long. The book has involved a good deal of
research into Long's art over the years, which has been updated in
further editions. I hope that readers will gain some new insights
into the artist's work and that of his contemporaries. REVIEW ON
AMAZON: Very satisfied with this book. It includes not only
detailed information about Long's work, but also discusses other
related artists, such as Barnett Newman, and other related topics,
including sculpture, installation and text in art. All in all a
very interesting book.
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