Ant Farm, 1968-1978 / by Constance M. Lewallen and Steve Seid ; with additional essays by Chip Lord, Caroline Maniaque, and Michael Sorkin ; and a timeline by Ant Farm.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Lewallen, Constance.

Contributor:

• Seid, Steve.
• Lord, Chip.
• Ant Farm (Design group)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Ant Farm (Design group)--Exhibitions.
• Ant Farm (Design group).
• Design--United States--History--20th century--Exhibitions.
• Architecture--United States--History--20th century--Exhibitions.
• Architecture.
• Counterculture.
• History.
• Avant-garde (Aesthetics).
• Design.
• United States.
• Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--United States--History--20th century--Exhibitions.
• Counterculture--United States--History--20th century--Exhibitions.

Genre:

• Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

xiii, 188 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press : Berkeley Art Museum : Pacific Film Archive, [2004]

Summary:

• This richly illustrated book 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 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 Ant Farm members Chip Lord, Doug Michels, and Curtis Schreier. An essay by Michael Sorkin gives the multivalent cultural context for Ant Farm's radical architecture, weaving rock music, French Surrealism, American car culture, and sexual liberation into the mix. Steve Seid takes a comprehensive look at Ant Farm's influential videotapes, identifying a cohesive and whimsical body of work that still resonates with relevance. 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 designed by Lord, Michels, and Schreier; and a rich montage of images and ephemera capturing the humor, originality, and prescience of this feisty enterprise called Ant Farm.

Contents:

• Introduction / Constance M. Lewallen
• Sex, drugs, rock and roll, cars, dolphins, and architecture / Michael Sorkin
• Searching for energy / Caroline Maniaque
• Tunneling through the wasteland : Ant Farm video / Steve Seid
• Interview with Ant Farm / Constance M. Lewallen in conversation with Chip Lord, Doug Michels, and Curtis Schreier
• Ant Farm timeline
• Automerica (excerpt) / Chip Lord.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 0520240294
• 0520240308

OCLC:

52775189

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