Andy Goldsworthy In Nature

“Officially, Andy Goldsworthy is a leading member of the Earth Art movement, which was founded in the long-haired 60’s and is invariably billed in textbooks as an attempt to free the art object from the marketplace. Almost disappointingly free of self-importance, he describes his most formative experience as the time he spent as a farm laborer in Leeds, England, where he came to think of stacked bales of hay as ‘minimalist sculptures.’ Curiously enough, these days, Goldsworthy is more valued in America than he is in his native England, perhaps because the London art world tends to disparage the notion of landscape as too gentlemanly and old-fashioned, too English.