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"  The Andy Goldsworthy Project sounds like the name of an obscure prog-rock band or a gloriously cheesy old cloak-and-dagger caper starring Michael Caine. But it&amp;#039;s actually the title of a marvelous book just published by Thames &amp;amp;amp; Hudson in association with the National Gallery of Art. While it sounds incongruously generic, the title actually sums up the Yorkshire-born environmental artist&amp;#039;s worldview most aptly, because for some 30 years, Goldsworthy has been making his life a project\u2014or one damn project after another, if you will\u2014the aim of which is to amaze and beguile the world with the imaginative sweep and technical craft and panache of his artistic endeavors. Many of these works, as well as Goldsworthy&amp;#039;s method and manner of working, are showcased in the widely admired 2001 documentary Rivers and Tides. Goldsworthy works with wood, stone, and other natural materials, and he has often devoted himself to ephemeral works fired by a visual sense of derring-do: elaborately stitching or pasting brightly colored leaves up tree trunks or across creek beds, constructing huge balls of ice embedded with sundry materials that are revealed in the big meltdown, and so on.  But The Andy Goldsworthy Project celebrates both a specific project\u2014&amp;quot;Roof,&amp;quot; in which the artist and his team shaped sheets of slate into a series of nine ruggedly elegant hollow domes somewhat like upside-down beehives in the East Building of the National Gallery\u2014and also his more general project in the form of a comprehensive catalog of all of his permanent installations at dozens of museums and outdoor sites around the world. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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