Dieter Roelstraete - Richard Long A Line Made by Walking - Afterall Books 2010

Author:
Dieter Roelstraete

Book:
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 was being celebrated and reassessed, this study by writer and curator Dieter Roelstraete could not have been more timely.

Publisher:
Afterall Books - One work series - 2010
112p - English- rare