Richard Long: Many Rivers to Cross - Hardcover

Long, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 050097120X ISBN 13: 9780500971208

Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2021

Synopsis

A thorough overview of Richard Long's career, selected by the artist himself and spanning his career from the late 1960s to today

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About the Author

Sir Richard Long CBE is one of Britain’s foremost sculptors and land artists. Short-listed four times for the Turner Prize, he won the award in 1989 for White Water Line. He was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts in 2001 and for more than fifty years his work has been exhibited at major galleries throughout the world. Richard Long lives and works in Bristol, the city in which he was born.

From the Back Cover

Richard Long has been at the forefront of land art for more than half a century. A pioneer of conceptual practices in the 1960s, his expanded approach to sculpture has consistently taken the medium out of the studio into the natural world and around the globe, using time, space, distance, navigation, perception, the elements and the geological forces that have shaped the landscape around us as both his tools and his vocabulary.

Many Rivers to Cross is a thorough overview of Long's career, selected by the artist himself and spanning the late 1960s to the present day. It covers his practice in all its forms û walks, photographs, text works, large installations, mud works and drawings, including some early unpublished works as well as many seminal and celebrated projects.

A number of short æback storiesÆ written by Long not only provide insight into the context and creation of key works, but also evoke the sense of freedom and adventure of an epic journey across foreign landscapes. T

Edition details

• Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 050097120X
• ISBN 13: 9780500971208
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 424