This book, published in celebration of the gradual opening of Matta-Clark's archives at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, collects previously unavailable writings, including notecards and notebooks, along with interviews and ...
Yet the Brazilian connection recorded by Montaigne is significant, for it helps to explain why Matta-Clark was interested in anthropophagy in the first place, and why he felt that Lee Jaffe should be “the chosen one.
A landmark work byGordon Matta-Clark, examined as an ldquo;act of communicationrdquo; aboutsustainability and the public role of art.
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.
Combining elements of Surrealist automatic drawing with an interest in choreography, these works appealed to performance artists at the time—including Laurie Anderson and Trisha Brown.
Gordon Matta-Clark
Gordon Matta-Clark, scion and rebel, died at 35 in 1978 and has since become a cult figure of late-twentieth-century art. Born in New York and trained in architecture at Cornell,...
This book is a monograph on the legendary American artist Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978), considered one of the most important artists of the second half of the twentieth century.Born in New...
Gordon Matta-Clark: Moment to Moment offers a comprehensive overview of this courageous and liberating artist with a wealth of documentation and reproductions from across Matta-Clark's oeuvre, as well as critical commentary from Philip ...
"Originally created by American artist Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978) in New York's SoHo district in spring 1972, Open House is one of the most important objects held by MAMCO Geneva.
"This archive reveals a palpable, living document not only of a formidable artist, but also of an electric era upon which the present stands."—Mary Jane Jacob, Professor and Director of the Institute for Curatorial Research and Practice, ...
Stephen Walker argues instead for the artist's ambivalent relationship with the architectural heritage he is often claimed to disavow, thus making this the first book to extrapolate Matta-Clark's thinking beyond its immediate context.Walker ...
Gordon Matta-Clark: Entretiens