Research Catalog

Title

Gordon Matta-Clark : an archival sourcebook / edited by Gwendolyn Owens and Philip Ursprung.

Publication

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Matta-Clark, Gordon, 1943-1978.
• Owens, Gwendolyn
• Ursprung, Philip

Description

406 pages : illustrations; 27 cm.

Summary

"Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978) has never been an easy artist to categorize or to explain. Although trained as an architect, he has been described as a sculptor, a photographer, an organizer of performances, and a writer of manifestos, but he is best known for un-building abandoned structures. In the brief span of his career, from 1968 to his early death in 1978, he created an oeuvre that has made him an enduring cult figure. In 2002, when Gordon Matta-Clark's widow, Jane Crawford, put his archive on deposit at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, it revealed a new voice in the ongoing discussion of artist/architect Matta-Clark's work: his own. Gwendolyn Owens and Philip Ursprung's careful selection and ordering of letters, interviews, statements, and the now-famous art cards from the CCA as well as other sources deepens our understanding of one of the most original thinkers of his generation. Gordon Matta-Clark: An Archival Sourcebook creates a multidimensional portrait that provides an opportunity for readers to explore and enjoy the complexity and contradiction that was Gordon Matta-Clark"--

Series Statement

Documents of twentieth-century art

Uniform Title

• Gordon Matta-Clark (University of California Press)
• Documents of 20th century art.

Subject

• Matta-Clark, Gordon, 1943-1978 > Correspondence
• Matta-Clark, Gordon, 1943-1978 > Interviews
• Matta-Clark, Gordon, 1943-1978 > Sources
• Matta-Clark, Gordon, 1943-1978

Genre/Form

• Interviews.
• Personal correspondence.
• Sources.
• Correspondence.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JQF 22-1941

ISBN

• 9780520246997
• 0520246993
• 9780520280267
• 0520280261

LCCN

2021053087

OCLC

1290724004

Title

Gordon Matta-Clark : an archival sourcebook / edited by Gwendolyn Owens and Philip Ursprung.

Publisher

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Documents of twentieth-century art

Documents of 20th century art.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Matta-Clark, Gordon, 1943-1978.

Owens, Gwendolyn, editor.

Ursprung, Philip, editor.

Research Call Number

JQF 22-1941