Midsummer Snowballs (Abrams, $29.95) … One winter, Scottish artist Andy Goldsworthy stored 13 one-ton snowballs in cold storage and released them into London’s financial district one summer night. Filled with everything from elderberries to barley to barbed wire, the snowballs released their contents to a startled audience. This fascinating, amusing book shows how it was done.

This article appears in December 7 • 2001.

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