Cadillac Ranch

Cadillac Ranch is a Sculpture Monument ale exposed in the open air to Amarillo, in the Texas, and which constituted one of attractions marking out old the American road 66 . Conceived in 1974 by Chip Lord, Hudson Mark and Doug Michels, all three members of the group of Architecte S Ant Farm , it consists of an alignment of ten wrecks of Automobile S of mark Cadillac, installed so as to give the impression which they are planted in the ground.

Description

The cars, established approximately all the 5 Mètre S following an alignment is - western, with half-is buried in the ground, the cap ahead, and almost with the vertical - in fact, they are supposed to form with the ground same the Angle as the faces of the Egyptian pyramid of Khéops, on the plate of Gizeh.

These ten models represent the evolution of the range between 1949 and 1963:

1949 Cadillac Club Cuts (aka Sedanette)
1950 Cadillac Series 62 Sedan
1954 Cadillac Coupe City
1956 Cadillac Series 62 Sedan
1957 Cadillac Sedan
1958 Cadillac Sedan
1959 Cadillac Coupe
1960 Cadillac Sedan (Flat signal)
1962 Cadillac 4 Window Sedan
1963 Cadillac Sedan

Localization

Coordinates: .

Cadillac Ranch is located in a bovine grazing ground of the west of Amarillo, with 200 meters in the south of old the road 66 (and current interstate 40 , which takes again the layout of it on this portion).

Work was originally with 3 kilometers in the east, in a cereal field, from where it was moved in 1997 in order to move away from the town of Amarillo which does not cease increasing.

The two grounds belong to a millionaire of the area, Stanley Marsh, Mécène of the project.

Interaction with the public

Work is visible since the highway and, although it is located on a private ground, its visit is tacitly encouraged, insofar as it is not closed and that a way is arranged. The visitors are also encouraged with graffiter the cars, which for a long time lost their original colors. They besides are regularly repainted in various colors in order to renew the space of expression offered to the visitors.

Appearances

The American Popular culture adapted Cadillac Ranch , associated in the collective spirit with road 66.

The Cartoon film Bus , produced by Pixar for Walt Disney, made there several winks. Indeed, it puts in scene the fictitious city of Radiator Springs which extends to the foot from a solid mass, that a chart names Cadillac Range and places not far from road 66 and the interstate 40 . Moreover, throughout film, one can see at the horizon of the rock formations whose contours point out those of the drawn up cars.

Cadillac Ranch also appears in 1980 in a song of the album The River , by Bruce Springsteen.

See too

External bond

the official site of '' Cadillac Ranch ''

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