Michael Heizer: The Once and Future Monuments
William L. Fox
The Monacelli Press, September 2019

Hardcover| 6-1/2 x 9 inches | 232 pages | English | ISBN: 978-1580935203 | $45.00

Publisher's Description:
Michael Heizer is among the greatest, and often least accessible, American artists. As one of the last living figures who launched the Land Art movement, his legacy of works that are literally and metaphorically monumental has an incalculable influence on the world of sculpture and environmental art. But his seclusion in the remote Nevada desert, as well as his notorious obduracy, have resulted in significant gaps in our critical understanding. Michael Heizer: The Once and Future Monuments spans the breadth of Heizer?s career, uniquely combining fieldwork, personal narrative, and biographical research to create the first major assessment in years of this titan of American art.
Author William L. Fox, founding director of the Center for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art, has alternately been a sponsor, advocate, and critic of Heizer?s work for decades. Fox?s understanding of the artist?s history and connection to landscape, his time spent with Heizer at the remote ranch where Heizer is finishing his magnum opus ? the mile-long sculpture City ? and his access to some of Heizer?s key associates give him a unique position from which to discuss the artist?s work. Fox has also made numerous site visits to Heizer?s work?including early pieces in the Nevada des...