Dustin M. Wax » cadillac http://dwax.org writer, educator, anthropologist, and freelance thinker Fri, 18 Jun 2010 09:04:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Cadillac Ranch http://dwax.org/2009/06/17/cadillac_ranch/ http://dwax.org/2009/06/17/cadillac_ranch/#comments Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 Cadillac Ranch outside of Amarillo. Plopped down in the middle of a field just south of I-40, Cadiallc Ranch was commissioned by eccentric rich guy Stanley Marsh III and built by artist/architect collective Ant Farm. The sculpture consists of 10 50s-era Cadillacs half-buried nose-down, and covered with a riotously-colored palimpsest of graffiti, which is encouraged.
[Continue reading]]]> I recently drove cross-country, passing through the Texas panhandle, which gave me the opportunity to have a look at Cadillac Ranch outside of Amarillo. Plopped down in the middle of a field just south of I-40, Cadiallc Ranch was commissioned by eccentric rich guy Stanley Marsh III and built by artist/architect collective Ant Farm. The sculpture consists of 10 50s-era Cadillacs half-buried nose-down, and covered with a riotously-colored palimpsest of graffiti, which is encouraged.

Cadillac Ranch is considered the inspiration for Nebraska’s Carhenge, whose virtues I’ve extolled here before.

God bless our American wackos!

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