sᴇʟᴇᴄᴛᴇᴅ ᴀʀᴛᴡᴏʀᴋ: ᴍɪᴄʜᴀᴇʟ ʜᴇɪᴢᴇʀ, ᴅᴏᴜʙʟᴇ ɴᴇɢᴀᴛɪᴠᴇ, 1969-70
95 - 96
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Early Career
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born in Berkeley, California in 1944
father was archaeologist and professor of
anthropology at UC Berkeley,, excavate extensively
in CA, NV, Mexico
when Heizer was 12, took year away from school to
make site drawings for dig in Mexico
1963-64: San Francisco Art Institute
abandon school, relocate to NY
paint lofts, pursue own art
met Robert Smithson, wife Nancy Holt
help acquaint them with land of American West, also
help Walter de Maria
burgeoning movement called Land art/Earthworks
2 earliest exhibitions of land art:
Earthworks at Virginia Dwan's NY gallery in 1968
Earth Art - Willoughby Sharp at Cornell U in 1969,
use semi-bulldozer to dig pit 15ft in diameter, displace
dirt claimed by another artist
Dwan, heir to manufacturing fortune, supported her
artists in whatever they pursued, even if unsaleable
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Minimalism to
Land Art
Land Art
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Land art categorized as Post Minimalism
art historian Rosalind Krauss - 1977 book Passages
in Modern Sculpture, position land art at end of her
history
Heizer and Smithson's work in landscape offer experience
that decenters and disorients our bodies
project long before minimalism, reach apex in sculptural
practices of 1960s
Land art categorized as Post Minimalism
art historian Rosalind Krauss - 1977 book Passages
in Modern Sculpture, position land art at end of her
history
Heizer and Smithson's work in landscape offer experience
that decenters and disorients our bodies
project long before minimalism, reach apex in sculptural
practices of 1960s
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Analysis
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situated on Mormon Mesa in Nevada
2 sloped gashes blasted out of side of small valley
work with assistant to blast 240,000 tons of rock
visitors can stand on mesa and see both ramps
critic Philip Leider - Artforum in September 1970,
visit work with Serra and video/performance artist
Joan Jonas
range of consequences in doing it wrong
Virginia Dwan maintain ownership, free for public
1980s - donated to Museum of Contemporary Art, LA
Heizer request museum raise funds to restore work
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Land Art
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Land artists have different approach to photographic
representation to their work
Heizer - most negative
Smithson, Dennis Oppenheim - used it
2012 exhibition Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974,
Philipp Kaiser, Miwon Kwon argued for documentation
as early as 1969, rely on documentation, or stayed unseen
emphasis on bodily experience
2d image highlight land art's reliance on line, shape
Land artists have different approach to photographic
representation to their work
Heizer - most negative
Smithson, Dennis Oppenheim - used it
2012 exhibition Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974,
Philipp Kaiser, Miwon Kwon argued for documentation
as early as 1969, rely on documentation, or stayed unseen
emphasis on bodily experience
2d image highlight land art's reliance on line, shape
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