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Illustrates outdoor sculptures created with a range of natural materials, including snow, ice, leaves, rock, clay, stones, feathers, and twigs.

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Library Journal Review

A new generation of American and European sculptors is receiving critical and commercial attention for rediscovering, in the spirit of Duchamp's Bicycle Wheel (1913), the wealth of forms in everyday life. Variously labeled ``New Object,'' ``Metaphoric Object,'' ``Neo-Geo,'' or ``Simulationist,'' this new sculpture mimics familiar objects from industrial, domestic, and historical sources. Eight such artists are features in OBJECTives: Robert Gober, Jeff Koons, Annette Lemieux, and Haim Steinbach from New York; Grenville Davis and Judith Opie from London; Katarina Fritsch from Cologne; and Juan Munoz from Madrid. This exhibition catalog, which presents works exhibited at the Newport Harbor Art Museum in California from April to June 1990, includes exhibition histories and a selected bibliography for each artist. Goldsworthy is an extraordinarily innovative British artist who employs a range of natural materials--leaves, bark, twigs, petals, berries, rock, clay, stones, feathers, snow, ice--to create outdoor sculpture that works instinctively in nature. His range of scale is impressive, from grasses and leaves to ice spires and slate stacks. Goldsworthy records his works in the 120 full-color photographs that are the subject of this book. The delicate tensions and balance of his collaborations encourage a sharpened perception of the natural world. Goldsworthy's introduction eloquently explains his working methods and philosophy and convinces the reader that he's doing more than playing the primitive.-- Russell T. Clement, Brigham Young Univ. Lib., Provo, Ut. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Booklist Review

British artist Goldsworthy is the most delicate and sensitive creator of earthworks imaginable. His studio is the great outdoors, his materials leaves, stones, branches, ice, and water. His sculptures are wonders of precision and balance; they are ephemeral and full of light. Photographs become as important as the sculptures themselves and they are magnificent, recording the startling beauty of Goldsworthy's forms: holes, spirals, cracks, spheres, screens, arches, and snakes. The fine introduction elucidates Goldsworthy's intent and the many-faceted pleasure he derives from working with nature. A book of elegant, gentle, and meditative work that deserves a place in contemporary art collections. --Donna Seaman