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. There he employed the term “anarchitecture,” combining “anarchy” and “architecture,” to describe the site-specific works he initially realized in 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 Cuts dissected these structures, performing an anatomical study of the ravaged urban landscape. Moving from New York to Paris with Conical Intersect, a piece that became emblematic of artistic protest, Matta-Clark applied this same method to a pair of 17th-century row houses slated 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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Narrative Type: Monographs
Type: Book
Intended Audience: N/A
Book Title: Gordon Matta-Clark : Anarchitect
Item Length: 10.3in.
Item Height: 0.7in.
Item Width: 7.8in.
Author: Jessamyn Fiore, Antonio Sergio Bessa
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Topic: Conceptual, History / Contemporary (1945-), Individual Artists / Monographs, Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, European
Publisher: Yale University
Publication Year: 2017
Genre: Art
Item Weight: 32.5 Oz
Number of Pages: 184 Pages
