Major Sources Regarding Michael Heizer

In print:

  • Kara VanderWeg, ed., Michael Heizer: Altars
    (Rizzoli, in association with the Gagosian Gallery, 2016), ISBN 978-0-8478-4767-9
  • Germano Celant, Michael Heizer
    (Fondazione Prada, 1997), Paperback, ISBN 8-887-02902-4 (amazon.com), Hardcover, ISBN 8-887-02901-6
  • Julia Brown, Ed., Michael Heizer: Sculpture in Reverse
    (The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1984), ISBN 0-914-35704-2;
    Reissued and Translated into French (Éditions Lutanie, 2014), ISBN 978-2918685098 
  • Zdenek Felix, Michael Heizer, and Ellen Joosten, Michael Heizer
    (Museum Folkwang, Essen, in association with the Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, 1979)
  • Michael Heizer and Mark C. Taylor, Michael Heizer: Double Negative - Sculpture in the Land
    (Rizzoli, in association with The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and the Nevada Institute for Contemporary Art at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1991), Hardcover, ISBN 0-847-81426-2
  • Douglas C. McGill, Michael Heizer: Effigy Tumuli (New York: Abrams, 1990), Paperback, ISBN 0-810-92374-2, Hardcover, ISBN 0-810-91166-3
  • David Whitney, Michael Heizer: Dragged Mass Geometric (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1985)

Video:

  • Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art (James Crump, 2015), available on DVD
  • Levitated Mass (Doug Pray, 2013), available on DVD

On the web:

Double Negative

In print:

  • William Wilson, "Don't Know Trenches but We Know What We Like," Los Angeles Times (27 Jul 1969, Pages 16-19).
  • "The New Art: It's Way, Way Out," Newsweek (29 July 1969, Pages 56-63).
  • Mark C. Taylor, Michael Heizer: Double Negative - Sculpture in the Land(New York: Rizzoli, in association with The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and the Nevada Institute for Contemporary Art at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1991), Hardcover, ISBN 0-847-81426-2

On the web:

City

In print:

On the web:

Effigy Tumuli

In print:

  • Douglas C. McGill, Michael Heizer: Effigy Tumuli (New York: Abrams, 1990), Paperback, ISBN 0-810-92374-2, Hardcover, ISBN 0-810-91166-3
  • "Project Pays Tribute to Indian Art," Chicago Tribune (21 Feb 1984)
  • Frederick C. Wilson, "Illinois's Do-It-Yourself Park" The Wall Street Journal(20 Apr 1984)
  • Douglas C. McGill, "Illinois Project to Turn Mined Land into Sculpture," The New York Times (3 Jun 1985, Page C17)
  • Wade Roberts, "Mound Sculpture Gives Town a Lift" Chicago Sun-Times (9 Jun 1985)

On the web:

Other Works

In general:

Adjacent, Against, Upon

  • R.M. Campbell, "Heizer's Sculpture Spirits," The Seattle Post-Intelligencer (6 Jan 1977)
  • Deloris Tarzan, "What Those Big Rocks Mean to Seattle," The Seattle Times(12 Jan 1977)
  • "One Critic's Work of Art is Another's Pile of Rocks," The Seattle Times (16 Jan 1977)
  • Pat Fuller, "Controversial Heizer Piece Completed for City Park," City Employee News (21 Jan 1977)
  • "Rocks by any other Name..." The Seattle Times (23 Jan 1977)
  • M.C.G., "Adjacent, Against, Upon: Sculpture by Michael Heizer at Myrtle Edwards Park, Seattle," Northwest Art (4 Feb 1977)
  • Dicky Moody, "City Defends Sculpture," The Seattle Times (10 Feb 1977)
  • Map to Adjacent, Against, Upon published by the Seattle Arts Commission, Seattle, WA
  • Image of Adjacent, Against, Upon from Seattle Outdoor Art

Guennette

North, East, South, West 1 (Dia: Beacon)

North, East, South, West 2 (Los Angeles)

Platform

  • Bill Northwood, "An Oakland Landmark Grows in the Desert," Oakland Tribune (14 Sep 1980)
  • Charles Shere, "Platform Takes its Place in Estuary Park," Oakland Tribune(10 Dec 1980)
  • Joanne Dickson, "Oakland, Michael Heizer, Platform, Estuary Park" Art Forum Number 8 (Apr 1981, Pages 74-75)

This Equals That

General Resources Regarding Land Art

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