9781846380587-1846380588-Richard Long: A Line Made by Walking (One Work)

Richard Long: A Line Made by Walking (One Work)

ISBN-13: 9781846380587
ISBN-10: 1846380588
Edition: First Edition
Author: Dieter Roelstraete
Publication date: 2010
Publisher: Afterall Books
Format: Paperback 86 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781846380587
ISBN-10: 1846380588
Edition: First Edition
Author: Dieter Roelstraete
Publication date: 2010
Publisher: Afterall Books
Format: Paperback 86 pages

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Richard Long: A Line Made by Walking (One Work) (ISBN-13: 9781846380587 and ISBN-10: 1846380588), written by authors Dieter Roelstraete, was published by Afterall Books in 2010. With an overall rating of 3.8 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Richard Long: A Line Made by Walking (One Work) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.72.

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In 1967, Richard Long, then twenty-two years old and a student at Saint Martin's School of Art in London, walked back and forth along a straight line in the grass in the English countryside, leaving a track that he then photographed in black and white. The resulting work, A Line Made by Walking, was not only the starting point for Long's career as an artist but also a landmark for a new kind of art emerging in Europe and the Americas. The formal simplicity of Long's artwork suggested a relation to minimalism, but its location outside the gallery context and its suggestion of bodily actions also connected it to a new generation of artists whose work combined the organic, the temporary, the nonmaterial, and the performative to offer a critique of the art system and its language, forms, and values. Long's work bridged the concerns of his North American and European counterparts, connecting the industrial scale of Robert Smithson to the modesty of Gilberto Zorio, the exercises in dematerialization of Robert Morris with the organic forms of Alighiero e Boetti, and the performance of Yvonne Rainer with that of Joseph Beuys.Although A Line Made by Walking is an instantly recognizable work, no detailed analysis of this foundational piece has yet been published. At a time when Richard Long's career is being celebrated and reassessed, this study by writer and curator Dieter Roelstraete could not be more timely.

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