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Michael Madden Heizer was born on November 4, 1944 in Berkeley, California to Robert Fleming Heizer and Nancy Elizabeth Jenkins.
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Heizer was no less active in 1969, when he created Double Negative, a 1,100-by-42-by-30-foot work located at Virgin River Mesa, Nevada, where he and his crew gouged and carved 240,000 tons of rock.
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Double Negative Michael Heizer Date: 1969 Style: Environmental (Land) Art Genre: installation Double Negative is a piece of land art located in the Moapa Valley on Mormon Mesa (or Virgin River Mesa) near Overton, Nevada.
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"45°, 90°, 180°" is situated more than a mile away from "Complex One." Michael Heizer, 77, has been building "City" for 50 years. The dusty road to Heizer's Sleep Late Ranch. "City" is hard to.
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Heizer called the newly empty space "Double Negative." It was acquired by Los Angeles' Museum of Contemporary Art in 1985. As then-L.A. Times art critic William Wilson wrote, "it would be.
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Bibliography / Credits City As long as you're going to make a sculpture, why not make one that competes with a 747, or the Empire State Building, or the Golden Gate Bridge. - Michael Heizer City, Michael Heizer's life-long project, is quite possibly the largest piece of contemporary art ever attempted.
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Collection > Michael Heizer > Double Negative. 1969. Share Share this on Facebook; Share this on Twitter; Share this on Google Plus; Share this on Tubmlr; Medium. 240,000-ton displacement of rhyolite and sandstone. Accession number. 85.105. Dimensions. 1500 x 50 x 30 ft. Credit. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Gift of Virginia Dwan.
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double negative is a website devoted to the life and works of the contemporary artist Michael Heizer, one of the pioneers of the "land art" or "earth art" movement. RECENT NEWS: Recent Michael Heizer Publications:
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Welcome to The Museum of Contemporary Art. With two distinct venues—MOCA Grand Avenue and The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA—and Michael Heizer's seminal artwork Double Negative (1969-70) in the Nevada desert, we engage audiences through an ambitious program of exhibitions, educational programs, and publishing.
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Heizer, for example, was the son of a famous anthropologist; his family had lived in the Nevada desert, where he created Double Negative, since the 1800s. As a child, he accompanied his father on field work which took them from centuries-old Native burial mounds to newer sites, scarred by commerce and munitions.
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Located in the vast desert landscape of Nevada, Double Negative is an awe-inspiring sculpture created by cutting two monumental trenches into the earth. Each trench is 50 feet deep, 30 feet wide, and spans over a quarter of a mile. These earthworks, positioned at opposing angles, form a remarkable channel that stretches across the desert floor.
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Double Negative (1969) is a work of land art by the artist Michael Heizer. It is located in the Moapa Valley on Mormon Mesa near Overton, Nevada. Double Negative was acquired into MOCA's permanent collection in 1985. Hours Double Negative (1969) by artist Michael Heizer is on view 24/7, 365 days a year.
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Double Negative is two massive trenches near Mormon Mesa, stretching 30 feet wide, 50 feet deep and 1,500 feet long. When Heizer was creating Double Negative, a staggering 240,000 tons of desert rhyolite and sandstone were dug out of the earth to make the trench, creating a striking negative space.
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Michael Heizer's "Double Negative" (1969), located two hours northeast of Las Vegas, is a quintessential piece of the Land Art canon. Yet if you don't have a clear image of what you're.
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Double Negative (1969) is a work of land art by the artist Michael Heizer. It is located in the Moapa Valley on Mormon Mesa near Overton, Nevada. Double Negative was acquired into MOCA's permanent collection in 1985. Hours Double Negative (1969) by artist Michael Heizer is on view 24/7, 365 days a year.
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In the same year, Heizer embarked on one of his most well-known negative sculptures, Double Negative. This large project required the displacement of around 240,000 tonnes of rock from the Nevada desert to form 30-foot-wide and 50-foot-deep trenches, and it represented the culmination of this early period of his artistic career.