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Created in close collaboration with the artist, this beautiful new book not only presents Michael Heizer's first exhibition with Gagosian Gallery in New York, but also firmly establishes the artist's reputation as a legendary sculptor. Working largely outside the confines of the gallery and museum world, Heizer has redefined sculpture in terms of size, mass, gesture, and process. Heizer's work City, an enormous complex in the rural desert of Lincoln County, Nevada, was recently designated Federally Protected Land. He draws on both ancient and contemporary architecture and art, cultivating tons of materials, including dirt, rock, and steel, in his quest to create a permanent American art. This book, which features beautiful images of rarely or never-before-seen early paintings, the Altar series of new monumental steel sculptures, and negative wall sculptures of metamorphic and igneous rocks, serves to illustrate this quest.

Former curator at the National Gallery of Art, art historian Ruth Fine serves as the Chair of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation. During her distinguished career, she has organized numerous exhibitions of 20th and 21st Century art and has published widely in those areas. In addition to writing on modern and contemporary art, Gagosian Gallery's Kara Vander Weg has organized important monographic exhibitions for the gallery, and has edited over a dozen books, including catalogues and monographs on such artists as Richard Avedon, John Currin, Willem de Kooning, and Walter De Maria.