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Michael Heizer

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Michael Heizer (Born 1944) is active/lives in New York, California.  Michael Heizer is known for Sculptor-earthworks, abstraction.

Michael Heizer, creator of Earth Art, was born in Berkeley, California in 1944. His feeling of land and space may have come from his father, anthropologist Robert Heizer.

Heizer briefly attended the San Francisco Art Institute from 1963 to 1964, where he studied painting. His work, then reflecting Minimalist tendencies, included square and rectangular canvases with broad bands of gray and white.

By 1966, he had begun to create earthworks on a monumental scale. He has preferred to work in the open desert areas of the Southwest.

The Galerie Heiner Friedrich, Munich, held his first one-person show in 1969. For this show he removed 1,000 tons of earth in a conical shape to create Munich Depression.

His "Double Negative,"1969-70, two vast incisions opposite one another on the edge of Virgin River Mesa, Nevada, displaced 240,000 tons of earth. Since most Earth artists view themselves as environmentalists, one wonders how Heizer justified this destruction of the   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2057 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Michael Heizer

   Publications  Book References:  63
Magazine References:  16

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16 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Michael Heizer
Magazine Article Date Author Color
ARTFORUM Reviews November 2006 Editors Yes
ARTFORUM Navigating the New Territory July 2005 Joselit, David No
ARTFORUM Being There July 2005 Wagner, Anne M Yes
ARTnews Moving Mountains, Walking on Water June 2004 Landi, Ann Yes
Art in America Patronage-Behind the Earth Movers April 2004 Boettger, Suzaan Yes
Art in America Review of Exhibitions April 2004 Editors, Art in America Yes
ARTFORUM Best of 2003 December 2003 Editors, Artforum No
Art-Talk New York? New York! November 2003 Bass, Ruth Yes
ARTnews Reviews July 2003 Editor, ARTnews Yes
ARTnews ARTtalk December 2002 Editors, ARTnews Yes
Art in America Review of Books- Breaking the Box December 2002 Johnson, Ken No
Art & Antiques Purely Creative December 2000 Jay, Hilary Yes
Art in America Review of Exhibitions June 1997 Editors, Art in America Yes
Art in America Monuments to Making July 1995 Rutledge, Virginia Yes
ARTFORUM Michael Heizer November 1994 Kuspit, Donald No
ARTnews Reviews October 1994 AN editors Yes
63 Book References for Michael Heizer
Year Author Title Pages Color
2006 Beardsley, John Earthworks and Beyond: Contempory Art in the Landscape 239 No
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Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2005 Janovy, Karen O. (Editor); David Cateforis (Intro) Sculpture From the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery 246 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1997 Hughes, Robert American Visions The Epic History of Art in America 635 Yes
1997 Lucie-Smith, Edward Visual Arts in the 20th Century 400 Yes
1996 Celant, Germano Michael Heizer
(Exhibition catalog)		 500 No
1996 Haden-Guest, Anthony True Colors The Real Life of the Art World 344 Yes
1995 Fineberg, Jonathan Art Since 1940 Strategies of Being 496 Yes
1995 Lucie-Smith, Edward Art Today 512 Yes
1992 Kurtz, Bruce D Contemporary Art 1965-1990 256 Yes
1992 Seitz, William C Art in the Age of Aquarius, 1955-1970 250 Yes
1992 Wood, Paul (others) Modernism in Dispute Art Since the Forties 267 Yes
1991 Gruen, John The Artist Observed 28 Interviews with Contemporary Artists 324 No
1991 Wexner Center, Ohio State U Breakthroughs Avant-Garde Artists in Europe & America 1950-1990 310 Yes
1991 Wheeler, Daniel Art Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present 344 Yes
1989 Armstrong, Tom/Susan C Larsen Art in Place Fifteen Years of Acquisition
(Exhibition catalog)		 230 Yes
1989 Naylor, Colin (editor) Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition) 1059 No
1988 Baker, Kenneth Minimalism Art of Circumstance 144 Yes
1988 Sandler, Irving American Art of the 1960s 412 Yes
1987 Cummings, Paul 20th Century Drawings from the Whitney Museum of American Art 176 Yes
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1987 Feldman, Edmund Burke Varieties of Visual Experience (3rd edition) 528 Yes
1987 Krane, Susan Albright-Knox Art Gallery Painting and Sculpture/Acquisitions since 1972 379 Yes
1986 Finch, Christopher American Watercolors 312 Yes
1986 Hunter, Sam An American Renaissance Painting and Sculpture Since 1940
(Exhibition catalog)		 269 Yes
1986 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986 1292 No
1986 Stein, Harvey Artists Observed 160 No
1985 Albright, Thomas Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980/An Illustrated History 349 Yes
1985 Ecole Nationale/Beaux-Arts Cinquante Ans de Dessins Americai 1930-1980
(Exhibition catalog)		 290 Yes
1985 Krantz, Les American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans 347 Yes
1985 Lucie-Smith, Edward American Art Now 160 Yes
1984 Craven, Wayne Sculpture in America (new and revised edition) 782 No
1984 DeCoppet, Laura/Alan Jones The Art Dealers The Powers Behind the Scenes Tell How 320 No
1984 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present 656 No
1984 Orr-Cahill, Christina The Art of California Selected Works/ Oakland Museum 199 Yes
1984 Robins, Corrine The Pluralist Era: American Art 1968-1981 246 Yes
1983 Walker, Barry The American Artist as Printmaker
(Exhibition catalog)		 144 Yes
1982 Ashton, Dore American Art Since 1945 224 Yes
1982 Johnson, Ellen H (editor) American Artists on Art from 1940 to 1980 274 No
1982 Young, Jane Drawings by Contemporary Sculptors (Surrey Art Gallery) 32 No
1981 Cummings, Paul Drawing Acquisitions, 1978-1981 Whitney Museum of American Art 64 No
1981 Whitney Museum Twentieth Century Drawings Selections from the Whitney 136 No
1980 Castleman, Riva Printed Art: A View of Two Decades 144 Yes
1980 Hughes, Robert Shock of the New: The Hundred Years History of American Art Its Rise, Dazzling Achievement, Its Fall 423 Yes
1980 Institute of Contemporary Art Urban Encounters Art, Architecture, Audience 64 Yes
1980 Lucie-Smith, Edward Art in the Seventies 128 Yes
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Brown, Milton W (others) American Art Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts 616 Yes
1979 Butler, Hiram (others) Documents, Drawings, and Collages Fifty American Works on Paper
(Exhibition catalog)		 123 No
1978 Walker, John Art Since Pop 110 Yes
1977 Ekdahl, Janis American Sculpture A Guide to Information Sources 260 No
1977 Seabolt, Fred/Donald Goodall New in the Seventies (Archer Huntington Gallery Exhibition)
(Exhibition catalog)		 60 Yes
1977 Whitney Museum 1977 Biennial Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 104 No
1976 Armstrong, Tom 200 Years of American Sculpture
(Exhibition catalog)		 336 Yes
1976 Tomkins, Calvin The Scene Reports on Post-Modern Art 272 No
1975 Cone, Michele The Roots and Routes of Art in the 20th Century 252 No
1975 Rosenberg, Harold Art on the Edge Creators and Situations 303 No
1973 Battock, Gregory Idea Art 203 No
1973 Solomon, Elke M American Drawings 1963-1973
(Exhibition catalog)		 62 No
1972 Kahmen, Volker Eroticism in Contemporary Art 282 Yes
1971 Calas, Nicolas and Elena Icons and Images of the Sixties 347 No
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