Ant Farm: 1968-1978 This heavily illustrated exhibit catalog provides an intriguing and often funny overview of Ant Farm, the radical San Francisco-based architecture and art collective best known for creating Cadillac Ranch—ten Cadillacs buried nosedown along I-40 in Amarillo, Texas. Though much of their works in progress and the artifacts of their completed projects were destroyed in a 1978 fire that precipitated the group's disbanding, the media-conscious Ant Farmers had extensively documented their finished works. Sketches, magazine articles, and production photographs appear on nearly every page here, amid essays and interviews with Ant Farm founders Chip Lord, Doug Michaels, and Curtis Schrier. "Ant Farm was a gorgeous god-knows-what: a collective project that straddled architecture and performance art and pioneered video art, that embraced some of the most radical ideas of the 1960s while remaining fond of iconic mainstream America, that was from the Bay Area and the East Coast and Texas, and that was generally as funny as it was smart. Now at last it's adequately documented for the benefit of future generations who should most definitely know about Media Burn and inflatable environments and the ideas behind Cadillac Ranch and Where They Are Now. Buy it today. No home is complete without."—Rebecca Solnit ISBN:0520240308 Authors:Constance M. Lewallen & Steve Seid. Pages/Length:188 Publisher:California Publication Date:2004 Format:Paperback Primary Subject:architecture |