Selected Readings & Biography

1. Biography

Born in 1956 in Chesire, England; moved to Leeds, Yorkshire in 1963. Attended Bradford Art College, Yorkshire, 1974-75, and Preston Polytechnic, Lancashire Annex (BA Fine Art), 1975-78 (#1 on map). Lived in various parts of Yorkshire and Cumbria, 1979-85. Moved to Dumfriesshire, 1985 (#2). Moved to Penpont, Dumfriesshire where he now has his studio in 1986. Residencies and projects from 1987 on in Yorkshire, Lake District, Wales, County Durham, Isle of Wight, London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, France, Holland, U.S. (including Arizona, California, Illinois, Missouri, Pennsylvania), Australia, North Pole. Ballet centered on his work titled Végétal performed in France in 1995.

2. Books of Photographs

• Goldsworthy, Andy, Andy Goldsworthy: A Collaboration with Nature (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1990)
• Friedman, Terry, and Andy Goldsworthy, ed., Hand to Earth: Andy Goldsworthy Sculpture 1976-1990 (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1993)
• Goldsworthy, Andy, Stone (New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1994)
• Goldsworthy, Andy (introduction by Terry Friedman), Wood (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996)
• Goldsworthy, Andy and David Craig, Arch (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1999)
• Goldsworthy, Andy (introduction by Steve Chettle), Sheepfolds (Michael Hue Williams Fine Art, 2000)
• Goldsworthy, Andy (introduction by Kenneth Baker; photography by Jerry L. Thompson), Wall (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2000)

3. Selected Apparatus & Secondary Works on Goldsworthy

• Adams, Clive, "Catalogue Raisonne of Photographs, 1977-1989," in Hand to Earth (cited above), pp. 169-87
• Causey, Andrew, "Environmental Sculptures," in Hand to Earth (cited above), pp. 125-41
• Malpas, William, The Art of Andy Goldsworthy (Crescent Moon)

4. Works on Land Art and Other Land Artists

A. General:

• Beardsley, John, Earthworks and Beyond: Contemporary Art in the Landscape, rev. ed. (New York: Abbeville, 1989)
• Kastner, Jerry, ed., with survey by Brian Wallis, Land and Environmental Art: Themes and Movements (London: Phaidon, 1998)
• Sonfist, Alan, Art and the Land (New York: E.P. Dutton, 1983)
• Tiberghien, Gilles A., Land Art (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1995)
• Rosenblum, Robert, et al., The New Romantics, Art & Design Profile Series, ed. Andreas C. Papdakis (London: Academy Group, 1988)
• Weilacher, Udo, ed., Between Landscape Architecture and Land Art (Basel, Switzerland: Birkhäuser, 1999)

B. On Specific Issues:

• Auping, Michael, "Earth Art: A Study in Ecological Politics," in Sonfist (cited above), pp. 92-104
• Carlson, A., "Is Environmental Art an Aesthetic Affront to Nature?", Canadian Journal of Philosophy 16.4 (Dec. 1996): __
• Frost-Kumpf, Hilary Anne, "Reclamation Art: Restoring and Commemorating Blighted Landscapes," Nine Mile Run Greenway Project - Conversations in the Rust Belt: Brownfields into Greenways, 1995 (last accessed 5 May 2000) <http://slaggarden.cfa.cmu.edu/weblinks/frost/FrostTop.html>
• Humphreys, P., "The Ethics of Earthworks," Environmental Ethics 7 (1985) Kormendi, Katherine, "Ecological Art," Liberty Tree Alliance Site 1997 (last accessed 25 May 2000) <http://www.libtree.org/News/kormendi.html>
• Ross, Stephanie, "What is Environmental Art?", IO - Internet Magazine for Applied Aesthetics (Summer 1998) (last accessed 30 May 2000) <http://www.lpt.fi/io/arkisto/io98/ross.html>

C. Artistic Contexts:

• Baker, Kenneth, Minimalism (New York: Abbeville/Cross River, 1988)
• Godgrey, Tony,Conceptual Art (London: Phaidon, 1998)

5. Land Artist Home Pages, Interviews, Etc.

• Drury, Chris, Home Page (last accessed 25 May 2000) <http://www.chrisdrury.co.uk/>
• "Interview with Chris Drury," Fourth Door Review 2.3 (July 1998) (last accessed 25 May 2000) <http://www.netset3.com/fourthdoor/cdrury.htm>
• Grande, John, "An Interview with Michael Singer," Sculpture Magazine 17.7 (Sept. 1998) (last accessed 25 May 2000) <http://www.sculpture.org/documents/scmag98/singer/sm-singr.htm>
• Long, Richard, Home Page (last accessed 26 Nov. 2001) <http://www.richardlong.org/>

6. Courses with Useful Web Sites

Wickre, Bille, and Jeff Carrier, "Art and the Environment," Albion College, MI, Fall 1999 (last accessed 30 May 2000) <http://enviroart.albion.edu/>