This richly illustrated book, created to accompany the traveling exhibition of the same name, provides a fascinating critical overview of Ant Farm, the radical architecture collective that brought us Cadillac Ranch, Media Burn, and The Eternal Frame. Established by several young renegade architects in 1968, Ant Farm was a collaborative art and design group eager to bring to its practice a revolutionary spirit more consistent with the times. Its vision encompassed creations for a nomadic lifestyle, including inflatable ...
Read More
This richly illustrated book, created to accompany the traveling exhibition of the same name, provides a fascinating critical overview of Ant Farm, the radical architecture collective that brought us Cadillac Ranch, Media Burn, and The Eternal Frame. Established by several young renegade architects in 1968, Ant Farm was a collaborative art and design group eager to bring to its practice a revolutionary spirit more consistent with the times. Its vision encompassed creations for a nomadic lifestyle, including inflatable structures and radical environments that culminated in projects such as the organically appointed House of the Century and the unrealized aquatic edifice The Dolphin Embassy. "Ant Farm 1968-1978" explores the sweeping career of this inspired and inspiring visionary collective as its architectural projects broadened to embrace a range of undertakings that challenged the visual architecture of image, icon, and power. Constance Lewallen provides an in-depth, anecdotally rich interview with founding members Chip Lord, Doug Michels, and Curtis Schreier. An essay by Michael Sorkin gives the multivalent cultural context for Ant Farm's radical architecture. Steve Seid takes a comprehensive look at Ant Farm's influential videotapes. Caroline Maniaque's 'Searching for Energy' details the group's inflatable structures in relationship to contemporaneous architects working in a similar vein. The catalog also includes a substantial excerpt from Chip Lord's 1976 meditation on car culture, with a new epilogue; a graphically playful timeline recounting Ant Farm's essential art projects; and, a rich montage of images and ephemera capturing the humor, originality, and prescience of this feisty enterprise. It is a joint publication with the Berkeley Art Museum.
Read Less
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Good. No jacket. Jacket is rubbed and lightly worn along edges. Bottom edges of cover are lightly worn. Small chip at midpoint of bottom edge of back cover with cardboard exposed. Binding is tight. Pages are yellowed around edges, but text and images are bright and unmarked.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 8x1x10; Minor shelf wear to binding & edges of text block. Text and images unmarked. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover. PRIORITY SHIPPING PROVIDED IN THE USA FOR THE PRICE OF MEDIA MAIL SHIPPING.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
New. 0520240294. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** – – *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened--208 pp. With 155 ills. (58 col. ). 28 x 23 cm. Description: "Reviewing the accomplishments of a San Francisco-based architecture collective whose visionary oeuvre encompassed video, performance and installation art as well as radical architectural projects, this catalogue includes three critical essays, an extensive illustrated chronology of Ant Farm's activities over the course of its existence from 1968 to 1978, a recent interview with group members Chip Lord, Doug Michels and Curtis Schreier, and pictorial documentation of many of the collective's works, which range from inflatable structures and experimental mobile environments to an installation composed of ten Cadillacs buried nose down on a ranch in Texas. "--with a bonus offer--
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Very good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!