THE ART OF RICHARD LONG BY WILLIAM MALPAS The central fact and act of Richard Long"s art is walking. His work is founded on the art of walking, the act of walking, the actuality of walking, and on walking as art, as act, as experience. His walks become "artwalks", artwalks which become artworks. ••• Richard Long is a British land artist and sculptor who works with and in the natural world, but also with and within the highly sophisticated, artificial and humanmade world of art and culture. "I too wanted to make nature the subject of my work," Long explained of his early work, "but in new ways. I started working outside using natural materials like grass and water, and this evolved into the idea of making a sculpture by walking". ••• Richard Long is sometimes termed a "Romantic" sculptor, and part of this book relates his art to British Romanticism, as found in the literature of William Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats and others, and the British landscape tradition, as...