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Richard Long

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Richard Long (Born 1945) is active/lives in New York / United Kingdom.  Richard Long is known for Natural material abstraction.

Richard Long has been recognized for his significant contribution to the Conceptual and Minimal art movements of the early 1970s. He is usually associated with British Land Art, those artists creating earthworks in nature. His works most often include objects and substances taken from nature such as mud, and his pieces document his relationship with the landscapes of the places he visits.

An avid traveler, Long uses available materials from the sites he visits; silt from rivers, stone and wood fragments found on location. Not only are his materials organic, so are his arrangements. Long is notorious for using natural form, creating spirals, lines and circles sometimes even his footprints are incorporated. They express his presence, his experience, privately within a landscape.

He has created gallery installations built out of quarry stone taken from Cornwall as well as drawings applied directly to museum and gallery walls.
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   Publications  Book References:  17
Magazine References:  11

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11 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Richard Long
Magazine Article Date Author Color
ARTFORUM Reviews November 2004 Editors, Artforum Yes
Art & Auction September Calendar September 2004 Editors, Art + Auction Yes
Art & Auction Space-Time Continuum August 2003 Eakin, Hugh Yes
Art in America "Living Well" on Naoshima September 2002 Reed, Arden Yes
Art & Antiques Review: Tate Update December 2000 Editors, Art & Antiques Yes
ARTnews Reviews August 2000 Editors, ARTnews Yes
ARTnews Reviews November 1997 Editors, Art News Yes
Art in America Report from Japan: Art: Live and in March 1997 Heartney, Eleanor Yes
Art in America The Abstract Century July 1996 Adams, Brooks Yes
Art in America Bay Area Modern May 1995 Heartney, Eleanor Yes
ARTFORUM Richard Long September 1994 Kuspit, Donald No
17 Book References for Richard Long
Year Author Title Pages Color
2006 Beardsley, John Earthworks and Beyond: Contempory Art in the Landscape 239 No
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Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
1998 Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall California Art: 450 Years of Painting & Other Media 560 Yes
1997 Lucie-Smith, Edward Visual Arts in the 20th Century 400 Yes
1996 Barbara and Peter Toohil Accents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know… 363 Yes
1996 Sandler, Irving Art of the Postmodern Era From the Late 1960s to the Early 1990s 636 Yes
1995 Craig-Martin, Michael Drawing the Line Reappraising Drawing Past and Present
(Exhibition catalog)		 108 Yes
1995 Fineberg, Jonathan Art Since 1940 Strategies of Being 496 Yes
1995 Flam, Jack; Donald Marron The Paine Webber Art Collection 304 Yes
1992 Wood, Paul (others) Modernism in Dispute Art Since the Forties 267 Yes
1991 Wexner Center, Ohio State U Breakthroughs Avant-Garde Artists in Europe & America 1950-1990 310 Yes
1988 Read, Herbert A Concise History of Modern Painting 418 Yes
1984 Freeman, Phyllis New Art 207 Yes
1981 Smith, Roberta 4 Artists and the Map Image, Process, Data, Place
(Exhibition catalog)		 40 Yes
1976 Block, Rene SoHo, New York Downtown Mahhattan/Berliner Festwochen
(Exhibition catalog)		 431 No
Hooker, Denise Richard Long Walking the Line 328 Yes
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