Research Catalog

Title

Gordon Matta-Clark : anarchitect / Antonio Sergio Bessa ; Jessamyn Fiore.

Author

Matta-Clark, Gordon, 1943-1978

Publication

• [Bronx] ; New Haven : The Bronx Museum of the Arts in association with Yale University Press, [2017]
• ©2017

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Additional Authors

• Bessa, Antonio Sergio
• Fiore, Jessamyn
• Matta-Clark, Gordon, 1943-1978.
• Bronx Museum of the Arts, publisher, issuing body, organizer, host institution
• Yale University Press, publisher
• Jeu de paume (Gallery : France), host institution
• Kumu kunstimuuseum (Tallinn, Estonia), host institution
• Rose Art Museum, host institution

Description

xi, 169 pages : illustrations (some colour), photographs, portraits; 27 cm

Summary

"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."

Subjects

• Conceptual art
• Site-specific art
• Art and architecture
• Exhibition catalogs
• Conceptual art > United States > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Matta-Clark, Gordon, 1943-1978 > Criticism and interpretation
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Photobooks
• 1900-1999
• Site-specific art > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Matta-Clark, Gordon, 1943-1978 > Exhibitions
• United States
• Art and architecture > United States > 20th century

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Exhibition catalogs.
• Photobooks.

Language (note)

• Text in English.

Call Number

JQF 18-75

ISBN

• 9780300230437
• 0300230435

LCCN

2017936737

OCLC

982652263

Author

Matta-Clark, Gordon, 1943-1978, artist.

Title

Gordon Matta-Clark : anarchitect / Antonio Sergio Bessa ; Jessamyn Fiore.

Publisher

[Bronx] ; New Haven : The Bronx Museum of the Arts in association with Yale University Press, [2017]

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Event

"Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitect" : November 8, 2017-April 8, 2018, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York, New York, United States.

"Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitect" : June 4-September 23, 2018, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France.

"Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitect" : March 1-August 4, 2019, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia.

"Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitect" : September 12-December 15, 2019, the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States.

Language

Text in English.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Place of Publication

United States New York New York Bronx.

United States Connecticut New Haven.

Added Author

Bessa, Antonio Sergio, author, curator.

Fiore, Jessamyn, author, curator.

Matta-Clark, Gordon, 1943-1978. Works. Selections.

Bronx Museum of the Arts, publisher, issuing body, organizer, host institution.

Yale University Press, publisher.

Jeu de paume (Gallery : France), host institution.

Kumu kunstimuuseum (Tallinn, Estonia), host institution.

Rose Art Museum, host institution.

Research Call Number

JQF 18-75