Michael Heizer: Effigy Tumuli. The Reemergence of Ancient Mound Building
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1990. Holt, Nancy. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing. 131 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. Item #31296
ISBN: 0810911663
A heavily illustrated chronicle that follows Michael Heizer's creation of five earth sculptures on top of the a former strip mine along the Mississippi River in Illinois. Heizer was one of the early members of the "Land Art" movement that began in the 1960s and continues to the present. Heizer was a friend and contemporary of Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson who also fell in love with the large spaces of the American West.
Price: $30.00