Title: Richard Long
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."
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation, Art criticism, Sculpture, great britain, Earthworks (Art), Conceptual art, Long, richard , 1945-, Criticism and interpretationlong, richard , 1945-, Earthworks (art)--england, Conceptual art--england, N6797.l66 r64 2010, 709, Art, british
People: Richard Long (1945-)