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Marfa Modern: Artistic Interiors of the West Texas High Desert
Marfa Modern: Artistic Interiors of the West Texas High Desert
Marfa Modern: Artistic Interiors of the West Texas High Desert
Marfa Modern: Artistic Interiors of the West Texas High Desert
Marfa Modern: Artistic Interiors of the West Texas High Desert
Marfa Modern: Artistic Interiors of the West Texas High Desert
Marfa Modern: Artistic Interiors of the West Texas High Desert

Monacelli Press

Marfa Modern: Artistic Interiors of the West Texas High Desert

$50.00

Twenty-one houses in and around Marfa, Texas, provide a glimpse at creative life and design in one of the art world’s most intriguing destinations.

When Donald Judd began his Marfa project in the early 1970s, it was regarded as an idiosyncratic quest. Today, Judd is revered for his minimalist art and the stringent standards he applied to everything around him, including interiors, architecture, and furniture. The former water stop has become a mecca for artists, art pilgrims, and design aficionados drawn to the creative enclave, the permanent installations called “among the largest and most beautiful in the world,” and the austerely beautiful high-desert landscape.

In keeping with Judd’s site-specific intentions, those who call Marfa home have made a choice to live in concert with their untamed, open surroundings. Marfa Modern features houses that represent unique responses to this setting - the sky, its light and sense of isolation - some that even predate Judd’s arrival.

Here, conceptual artist Michael Phelan lives in a former Texaco service station with battery acid stains on the concrete floor and a twenty-foot dining table lining one wall. A chef’s modest house comes with the satisfaction of being handmade down to its side tables and bath, which expands into a private courtyard with an outdoor tub. Another artist uses the many rooms of her house, a former jail, to shift between different mediums - with Judd’s Fort D. A. Russell works always visible from her second-story sun porch.

Extraordinary building costs mean that Marfa dwellers embrace a culture of frontier ingenuity and freedom from excess—salvaged metal signs become sliding doors and lengths of pipe become lighting fixtures, industrial warehouses are redesigned after the area’s white-cube galleries to create space for private or personally created art collections, and other materials are suggested by the land itself: walls are made of adobe bricks or rammed earth to form sculptural courtyards, or, in one remarkable instance, a mix of mud and brick plastered with local soils, cactus mucilage, horse manure, and straw.

Author: Helen Thompson and Casey Dunn

Binding Type: Hardcover

Published: October 25, 2016

Pages: 224

Weight: 2.7 lb

ISBN: 9781580934732

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Marfa Modern: Artistic Interiors of the West Texas High Desert

Marfa Modern: Artistic Interiors of the West Texas High Desert

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