Gordon Matta-Clark
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Author
Contributions
- Bessa, Antonio Sergio, author, curator - Contributor
- Fiore, Jessamyn, author, curator - Contributor
- Matta-Clark, Gordon, 1943-1978 - Contributor
- Bronx Museum of the Arts - Contributor
- Yale University Press - Contributor
and 3 more
- Jeu de paume (Gallery : France) - Contributor
- Kumu kunstimuuseum (Tallinn, Estonia) - Contributor
- Rose Art Museum - Contributor
Publication
2017 - Yale University Press, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
42,250 words, Guess
Page Count
169 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139780300230437
- ISBN-100300230435
- Library of Congress Control Number2017936737
- OCLC Control Number982652263
- Better World Books9780300230437
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL26944040M
Classifications
- DDC709.2
- LCCN6537.M3947 A4 2017
- LCCN6537
Description
"This revealing book looks at the groundbreaking work of Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978), whose socially conscious practice blurred the boundaries between contemporary art and architecture. After completing a degree in architecture at Cornell University, Matta-Clark returned to his home city of New York, where he initiated a series of site-specific works in derelict areas of the South Bronx. The borough's many abandoned buildings, the result of economic decline and middle-class flight, served as Matta-Clark's raw material. His series 'Bronx Floors' dissected these structures, performing an anatomical study of ther ravaged urban landscape. Moving from New York to Paris with 'Conical Interserct', a piece that became emblematic of artistic protest, Matta-Clark applied this same method to a pair of seventeenth-century row houses slatted for demolition as a result of the Centre Pompidou's construction. This compelling volume grounds Matta-Clark's practice against the framework of architectural and urban history, stressing his pioneering activist-inspired approach, as well as his contribution to the nascent fields of social practice and relational aesthetics."
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