Wood

• Andy Goldsworthy: A Collaboration with Nature
• Stone
• Andy Goldsworthy's Rivers & Tides
• Passage
• Enclosure

This book just makes you want to go out into nature and create a masterpiece. As a gardener and sculptor I find the photos of his work inspiring and will definitely be attempting to create my own version of environmental art.

I wish all of the pictures took up the entire page but many are small. The art itself is flawless.

All the books featuring the works of Goldsworthy are stunning. His work is unexpected and a joy to anyone who loves nature.

If you like earth art this book (and there are others) offers some of the best of Goldsworthy. If you can't afford it (it was expensive for me) try and get your local library to invest. In other ways the book itself is as well presented and printed as any book of art I've seen. It's a big and invigorating book. The concepts and execution are as inventive as they are cerebral. It would be a great contribution to your local enclave. While I've never seen his work in person the photos and narrative of this book really feel like they capture the detail.

Simple things work best in his art, evoke more raw emotion and longing: he lines tree branches with dandelions and red maple leaves; he hangs large snowballs in trees; ribbons of leaves trail off into the water and spiral icicles circle tree trunks. In Wood, Goldsworthy goes beyond the confines of this material and shows us his mastery with the entire spectrum of natural media - snow, ice, rock, leaf, etc. Nevertheless, I must say that this collection of Goldsworthy's art is slightly inferior to his Collaborations with Nature, which is a better first choice if you are unfamiliar with his principles. Goldsworthy's art isn't what he makes. The book is subdivided into sections dealing with each specific medium, the last being Tree - each work is centered around a low-lying branch of a large oak.

It's what he does to things that are already there to make them fresh and beautiful to the jaded eye of an average human. It's all so simple and captivating, it's really quite astounding. Goldsworthy's art is fleeting. The only reminders of his non-permanent works are photographs.