Cadillac Ranch Show
Ant Farm
USA, est. 1968
1974/1994
A color-and-sound video documenting Ant Farm’s performative installation in which Cadillac bodies are buried nose-first in the Texas plain and turned into a graffiti-covered public sculpture to satirize American car culture.
What hits you is the absurd, cinematic sight of white Cadillacs thrust vertically from the earth against a deep blue sky, their chrome tailfins and spray-painted slogans reading like improvised roadside monuments in the flat desert landscape.
Situated at the intersection of Land Art, performance, and countercultural critique, the work recasts the automobile as a participatory sculptural object and helped make video both a record of ephemeral interventions and an artwork in its own right.
Medium
Video (color, sound)
Dimensions
16:40 min.
Classification
Department
Credit
Acquired through the generosity of Celeste Bartos and as a gift of Chip Lord
Accession
725.1980
Palette
Art Terms
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