Talk:A Line Made by Walking
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Did you know nomination[edit]
- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 22:48, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
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- ... that A Line Made by Walking is considered to be an important early work in the history of both land art and conceptual art? Source: The Pleasures of Good Photographs: Essays, (2010); BBC Arts, "I walk the line: How Richard Long turns epic journeys into art," 10 May 2018.
- ALT1:... that the sculpture, A Line Made by Walking, proposed the simple act of walking could be an artform? Source: "Richard Long: 'It was the swinging 60s. To be walking lines in fields was a bit different.'" The Guardian, 2012-06-15, interview by Charlotte Higgins
5x expanded by ThatMontrealIP (talk). Nominated by Hyperbolick (talk) at 17:45, 27 November 2019 (UTC).
Not yet long enough - needs some 200 chars. An important work. The image will not be useable - from Commons where it has a nonsense licence. It wouldn't have survived since 2013 except it was uncategorised. Johnbod (talk) 15:21, 1 December 2019 (UTC)
- Added content, should cover needed characters. Hyperbolick (talk) 15:21, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
- Nope - I make it 1489. This nom is beginning tio seem rather doom-laden. Johnbod (talk) 16:44, 4 December 2019 (UTC)
- have a hunch we can find 11 more characters on historically important artwork. Hyperbolick (talk) 19:23, 4 December 2019 (UTC)
- @Johnbod:, now? Hyperbolick (talk) 18:40, 5 December 2019 (UTC)
- have a hunch we can find 11 more characters on historically important artwork. Hyperbolick (talk) 19:23, 4 December 2019 (UTC)
- NOW at Template:Did you know nominations/A Line Made by Walking FFS - please don't move things after starting the template, it breaks the review link!! Johnbod (talk) 16:44, 4 December 2019 (UTC)
GTG without photo. Expansion ok, long enough (just), neutral & well-written. Photo not for main page. Both hooks check out, Earwig finds nothing. Johnbod (talk) 18:58, 5 December 2019 (UTC)
- Could something like this be used? Key is that what is considered the "artwork" is the line itself, not the photo of it. Hyperbolick (talk) 19:13, 5 December 2019 (UTC)
- Hyperbolick, very unlikely. It doesn't matter that "the photo is not the work". (I'm actually not sure that that is quite right, see https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/long-a-line-made-by-walking-p07149). The photo was taken by Long and has not been licensed in a way that allows it to be freely used. Vexations (talk) 19:52, 5 December 2019 (UTC)
- I have commented out the image from this nomination page to avoid confusion when this is promoted to prep. BlueMoonset (talk) 18:57, 3 January 2020 (UTC)
- Hyperbolick, very unlikely. It doesn't matter that "the photo is not the work". (I'm actually not sure that that is quite right, see https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/long-a-line-made-by-walking-p07149). The photo was taken by Long and has not been licensed in a way that allows it to be freely used. Vexations (talk) 19:52, 5 December 2019 (UTC)
- Could something like this be used? Key is that what is considered the "artwork" is the line itself, not the photo of it. Hyperbolick (talk) 19:13, 5 December 2019 (UTC)
Original research[edit]
I have reverted the addition of OR/Synthesis material here. it does not belong as it is basically giving a short art history lesson leading up to Long. The sources were generic items on Postmodernism. The claim that Long laid the path for Conceptual art is pretty weak, as there were so many before him. The sourcing also wasn't enough to support this claim. ThatMontrealIP (talk) 04:27, 7 December 2019 (UTC)
- Not crazy about “other instances” table either. Seems like something for the main Richard Long article. Sufficient to note that there were later examples without listing. Hyperbolick (talk) 05:55, 7 December 2019 (UTC)
- I'm not a fan of the table either; it could probably be summed up by saying "long went on to create more than ten works in the same vein as A Line Made by Walking. Another option would be to include a section called "derivative works", but to cover the notable derivatives in prose. That would be preferable to a list. It would be good if Snarkitect joined this discussion.ThatMontrealIP (talk) 13:55, 7 December 2019 (UTC)
- did something like that. Hyperbolick (talk) 18:16, 7 December 2019 (UTC)
- I'm not a fan of the table either; it could probably be summed up by saying "long went on to create more than ten works in the same vein as A Line Made by Walking. Another option would be to include a section called "derivative works", but to cover the notable derivatives in prose. That would be preferable to a list. It would be good if Snarkitect joined this discussion.ThatMontrealIP (talk) 13:55, 7 December 2019 (UTC)
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