Marfa, Marfa: Rasquachismo and Minimalism in Far West Texas

"In Marfa, Marfa, Josh T. Franco offers an alternative model for understanding art in Marfa, Texas. He examines the frameworks and aesthetic paradigms of the minimalist tradition brought to Marfa by artist Donald Judd and how it intersects with the rasquachismo tradition of Marfa's local Mexican-American, Indigenous, and Catholic communities. Franco, himself from West Texas, draws on personal family history and on the town's complex history of art, culture, memory, Indigenous land rights, and local Mexican/American communities, analyzing archival documents alongside art institutions' roles in producing the town. The book takes a decolonial and experimental method, examining Chicanx and Latinx rasquache traditions through objects for public display, local dialect, and domestic observations, and ultimately argues how minimalism itself is also rasquache"-- Provided by publisher.