Sculpture in reverse

by Michael Heizer, Julia Brown (Editor)

Published in conjunction with an exhibition of new work by the artist at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Michael Heizer (b. 1944) is an American land artist specializing in large-scale and site-specific sculptures. Working largely outside the confines of the traditional art spaces of galleries and museums, Heizer has redefined sculpture in terms of size, mass, gesture, and process. A pioneer of 20th-century land art or Earthworks movement, he is widely recognized for sculptures and environmental structures made with earth-moving equipment, which he began creating in the American West in 1967. He currently lives and works in Hiko, Nevada, and New York City. Acknowledgements / Richard Koshalek and Julia Brown; Interview / Julia Brown and Michael Heizer; Mythopoetic abstractions / Rainer Crone; Michael Heizer's use of photography / Sam Wagstaff; Downtown in the desert / Paula Deitz; Chronology/ Barbara Heizer; Chronology; Selected bibliography; Index of images.

112 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1984