Arch - Hardcover

Goldsworthy, Andy & David Craig

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0500019339 ISBN 13: 9780500019337

Publisher: Abrams, 1999

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Review:

Tour the English countryside with artist Andy Goldsworthy and writer David Craig, as they trace an ancient drover's route from the sheep pastures of Thornhill, Scotland, to the old market town of Kirkby Lonsdale, England. Goldsworthy, whose natural sculptures are often made up of collections of carefully arranged rocks, has created a self-supporting arch that is assembled with about 30 stones and no mortar. As he and Craig travel the British countryside, they set up and photograph the red sandstone arch in a wide variety of locations. Some sites have changed little over the centuries--on a number of occasions they erect the sculpture in original sheep folds (corrals). In other cases, the arch marks the changing landscape, as in Shap, Cumbria, where it was assembled on a sidewalk across from a relatively new school building.

Documenting this exploration, Arch includes 35 beautiful photographs as well as a poetic day journal written by Craig describing the journey. Looking at the different sites where the arch stood and reading Craig's insight into the geography and history of the land provides a unique opportunity for readers to experience Goldsworthy's work and England's natural history in one sitting. --Loren E. Baldwin

About the Author:

David Craig taught creative writing at the University of Lancaster.

About this edition

• Publisher: Abrams
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0500019339
• ISBN 13: 9780500019337
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Illustrator: Well-illustrated