Richard Long
Subtitle: a Line made by walking
By: Dieter Roelstraete
Series: One work
Publisher: Afterall Books; Distributed by the MIT Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 86
ISBN-13: 9781846380600; 9781846380587
Other titles: Line made by walking
Description: "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. 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."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 77-86).