GORDON MATTA-CLARK
Language: English
Published by 2003, 2003
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Diserens, Corinne (editor), Thomas Crow (survey), Judith Russi Kirshner and Christian Kravagna (essays). GORDON MATTA-CLARK. 244 pp., roughly 120 color, and 100 b&w plates. 4to, boards with "deconstructed" spine. London and New York, Phaidon, 2003. A thorough survey of the Matta-Clark's career including documentation of many of his cut-structures and other conceptual projects.
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- Title
- GORDON MATTA-CLARK
- Author
- Diserens, Corinne (editor), Thomas Crow (survey);
- Publisher
- 2003
- Publication year
- 2003
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0714839167
- ISBN 13
- 9780714839165
Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978) is one of the great heroes of late twentieth-century art, a cult figure as much in the contemporary art world as on the architecture scene, whose work is independent of any particular movement or school.
This book is the first and definitive monograph on the artist, who died at the age of 35. Born in New York and trained in architecture, Gordon Matta-Clark is most famous for his slicing through the facades, walls and floors of derelict buildings. This 'deconstructing gesture' - provocative and extreme - turns works of architecture into astonishing sculptures, where the mass of the building is entwined with the light and air that penetrate it.
Matta-Clark's interventions are always grounded in social or political convictions. Some of his projects include opening a restaurant (Food, 1971) in the then-neglected district of SoHo in New York, purchasing at auction fractions of unusable urban land in New York (Reality Properties Fake Estates, 1973), dispensing oxygen to passers-by in the streets of New York from a self-made cart (Fresh Air Cart, 1972), and other visionary urban projects that he conceived as a founding member of the New York-based Anarchitecture group. His practice remains one of the most unique, unequalled and hugely influential of the past decades.
A richly documented essay by Thomas Crow presents new and insightful perspectives on the work of the artist. Also included are original essays by Judith Russi Kirshner and Christian Kravagna, as well as a documents section composed of key unpublished and hard-to-find essays and interviews, compiled by editor Corinne Diserens.
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About the Author
Thomas Crow is Director of the Getty Research Institute at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, and Professor of Art History at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. His latest book, The Intelligence of Art, addresses the critical and historical understanding of art objects.
Corrine Diserens is a freelance curator and artistic adviser for the Association Carta Blanca Editions in Marseille, France.
Judith Russi Kirshner is Professor of Art History and Dean of the College of Architecture and the Arts at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Christian Kravagna is an art historian and critic based in Vienna.
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