{"product_id":"sculpting-the-land-strijdom-van-der-merwe-9781485307723","title":"Sculpting the Land: Artistic Interventions with the Landscape","description":"As a land artist Strijdom van der Merwe uses the materials provided by the chosen site. His sculptural forms take shape in relation to the landscape. It is a process of working with the natural world using sand, water, wood, rocks, etc. He shapes these elements into geometrical forms that participate with their environment, continually changing until their final probable destruction. He observes the fragility of beauty while not lamenting its passing. What remains is a photographic image, a fragment of the imagination. While a visual record is materially all that is left, he also leaves us a reminder of the capacity, however feeble, of an individual to alter the universe by embracing the ceaseless changing of nature, actively contributing to it and in so doing, modulating and beautifying the outcome.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Strijdom Van Der Merwe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1485307724\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781485307723\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Protea Boekhuis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/02\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 8.50w x 0.60d","brand":"Strijdom Van Der Merwe","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48442284605695,"sku":"9781485307723","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e0490727-ded1-4455-93f1-c286b67e49b4.jpg?v=1777196361","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sculpting-the-land-strijdom-van-der-merwe-9781485307723","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}