English sculptor, photographer and painter. Within a year of his departure
from St Martin's School of Art, London, Long was closely associated
with the emergence of a new art form, Land art. Long made his international
reputation during the 1970s with sculptures made as the result of
epic walks, sometimes lasting many days, to remote parts of the world.
Guided by a great respect for nature and by the formal structure of
basic shapes, especially circles, he never allowed facile exotic connotations
to intrude into his work. Long distinguished himself from American
land artists by the lightness of his interventions on the ground;
he saw this both as an ethical principle, in refusing to despoil or
exploit the landscape, and as an aesthetic one. With Long's works,
the spectator, is confronted with the idea of the walk, not with the
artist's experience itself, but with the indirect evidence of it.
Three beautiful Richard Long prints from
1995 by the renowned British land artist. All in fine condition.