Gordon Matta-Clark Library

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• Fonds: Gordon Matta-Clark collection, 1914-2008
•    Series: Gordon Matta-Clark Library, 1924-1972

People

• Gordon Matta-Clark (creator)
• Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

Title

Gordon Matta-Clark Library

Dates of creation

1924-1972

Level of archival description

Series 7

Extent and Medium

• 67 books
• 2 catalogues
• 2 magazines

Scope and Content

Series consists of books, catalogues and magazines that Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978) had in his personal library. Many of the books contain annotations by Matta-Clark.

Series contains book, catalogues and magazines.

Reference Number

CP138.S7

Credit line

Succession de Gordon Matta-Clark en dépôt au Centre Canadien d'Architecture, Montréal/
Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark on deposit at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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• Consult a printable list of the publications found in Gordon Matta-Clark's library. List includes author, title, date and place of publication.

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  • Reference Number: PH2006:0236
  • Title: Structures Implicit and Explicit
  • Dates of creation: published 1973
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • James Bryan (editor)
  • Rolf Sauer (editor)
  • University of Pennsylvania. Graduate School of Fine Arts. (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  No annotations or underlining.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Physical Description:

  The spine is torn.

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  
  

  Copyright:

  © Succession Gordon Matta-Clark
  © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark

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  • Reference Number: PH2006:0237
  • Title: The Structure of Art
  • Dates of creation: published 1973
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Jack Burnham (author)
  • George Braziller (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  No annotations or underlining.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

  Copyright:

  © Succession Gordon Matta-Clark
  © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark

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  • Reference Number: PH2006:0238
  • Title: The Human Body
  • Dates of creation: published 1930
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Logan Clendening (author)
  • Garden City Publishing Co. (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  No annotations or underlining.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

  Copyright:

  © Succession Gordon Matta-Clark
  © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark

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  • Reference Number: PH2006:0239
  • Title: The Forge and the Crucible: The Origins and Structures of Alchemy
  • Dates of creation: published 1971
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Mircea Eliade (author)
  • Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  No annotations or underlining.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Dimensions:

  book: 20 × 13,3 × 2,4 cm (7 7/8 × 5 1/4 × 15/16 in.)

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

  Copyright:

  © Succession Gordon Matta-Clark
  © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark

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  • Reference Number: PH2006:0240
  • Title: Marx and Engels on Literature and Art
  • Dates of creation: published 1974
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Friedrich Engels (author)
  • Karl Marx (author)
  • International General (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)
  • Susan Ensley (referent)
  • Clair Montgomery (referent)

  Description:

  There is a letter from Gordon Matta-Clark to "Susan" written on the half-title page. There is another short text by Matta-Clark on the last page. The name and phone number of "Clair Montgomery" is inscribed in the back of the book.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

  Copyright:

  © Succession Gordon Matta-Clark
  © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark

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  • Reference Number: PH2006:0241
  • Title: A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method
  • Dates of creation: published 1961
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Banister Fletcher (author)
  • Charles Scribner's Sons (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)
  • Alan Saret (referent)

  Description:

  The name of "Alan Saret" is inscribed on the front flyleaf.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Dimensions:

  book: 24.1 × 16.5 × 7.3 cm (9 1/2 × 6 1/2 × 2 7/8 in.)

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

  Copyright:

  © Succession Gordon Matta-Clark
  © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark

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  • Reference Number: PH2006:0242
  • Title: The Urantia Book
  • Dates of creation: published 1967
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Urantia Foundation (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  No annotations or underlining.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Dimensions:

  book: 26 × 17,7 × 6,2 cm (10 1/4 × 6 15/16 × 2 7/16 in.)

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

  Copyright:

  © Succession Gordon Matta-Clark
  © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark

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  • Reference Number: PH2006:0243
  • Title: Dymaxion World of Buckminster Fuller
  • Dates of creation: published 1973
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • R. Buckminster Fuller (author)
  • Robert Marks (author)
  • Anchor Books (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  No annotations or underlining.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Dimensions:

  book: 26 × 18 × 2,3 cm (10 1/4 × 7 1/16 × 7/8 in.)

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

  Copyright:

  © Succession Gordon Matta-Clark
  © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark

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  • Reference Number: PH2006:0244
  • Title: Ideas and Integrities: Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure
  • Dates of creation: published 1963
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • R. Buckminster Fuller (author)
  • Collier Books (Firm) (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  No annotations or underlining.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Dimensions:

  book: 20,1 × 13,7 × 2,8 cm (7 15/16 × 5 3/8 × 1 1/8 in.)

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

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  • Reference Number: PH2006:0245
  • Title: Nine Chains to the Moon
  • Dates of creation: published 1969
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • R. Buckminster Fuller (author)
  • Southern Illinois University Press (publisher)
  • Feffer and Simons, Inc. (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  No annotations or underlining.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Dimensions:

  book: 20,3 × 12,3 × 2,7 cm (8 × 4 13/16 × 1 1/16 in.)

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

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  • Reference Number: PH2006:0246
  • Title: Leon Battista Alberti: Universal Man of the Early Renaissance
  • Dates of creation: published 1973
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Joan Kelly (author)
  • University of Chicago. Press (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)
  • Leon Battista Alberti (subject)

  Description:

  No annotations or underlining.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Dimensions:

  book: 20 × 21,6 × 1,5 cm (7 7/8 × 8 1/2 × 9/16 in.)

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

  Copyright:

  © Succession Gordon Matta-Clark
  © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark

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  • Reference Number: PH2006:0247
  • Title: De Van Eyck a Bruegels: La peinture dans les anciens pay-bas
  • Dates of creation: published 1954
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Robert Genaille (author)
  • Éditions Pierre Tisné (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)
  • Roberto Matta (role unspecified)

  Description:

  Inscription by Roberto Matta (?) on front pastedown and page 121. Annotations and underlining throughout first half of the book, particularly on pages 35-37 in pencil in French in another hand.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Physical Description:

  Some plates missing.

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

  Copyright:

  © Succession Gordon Matta-Clark
  © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark

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  • Reference Number: PH2006:0248
  • Title: All and Everything: 1st Series: Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson
  • Dates of creation: published 1964
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff (author)
  • M.I.T. Press (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  No annotations or underlining.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Dimensions:

  book: 17 × 11,1 × 4,8 cm (6 11/16 × 4 3/8 × 1 7/8 in.)

  Physical Description:

  The cover is torn around edges.

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

  Copyright:

  © Succession Gordon Matta-Clark
  © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark

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  • Reference Number: PH2006:0249
  • Title: A Guide to Ancient Maya Ruins
  • Dates of creation: published 1974
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • C. Bruce Hunter (author)
  • University of Oklahoma. Press (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  A pharmacy receipt from Merida, Yucatan, Mexico and a piece of paper with names, phone numbers and hours is inserted at page 127. Two bus tickets for Progreso to Merida, one stamped 7 March 1975, are inserted at page 219. Driving instructions and notes are inscribed in another hand on the last page of the book.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Dimensions:

  book: 21 × 13.7 × 3.3 cm (8 1/4 × 5 3/8 × 1 5/16 in.)

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

  Copyright:

  © Succession Gordon Matta-Clark
  © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark

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  • Reference Number: PH2006:0250
  • Title: Islamic Art & Architecture
  • Dates of creation: published 1967
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Ernst Kühnel (author)
  • Cornell University Press (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  No annotations or underlining.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Dimensions:

  book: 22 × 14,5 × 2,5 cm (8 11/16 × 5 11/16 × 1 in.)

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

  Copyright:

  © Succession Gordon Matta-Clark
  © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark

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  • Reference Number: PH2006:0251
  • Title: Remember: Be Here Now
  • Dates of creation: published 1971
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Lama Foundation (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  Passages underlined throughout text.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Dimensions:

  book: 20 × 20 × 2,7 cm (7 7/8 × 7 7/8 × 1 1/16 in.)

  Physical Description:

  The back cover and first three pages are detached from the rest of the book.

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

  Copyright:

  © Succession Gordon Matta-Clark
  © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark

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  • Reference Number: PH2006:0252
  • Title: Cities and Planning: Cities and Planning in the Ancient Near East
  • Dates of creation: published 1968
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Paul Lampl (author)
  • George Braziller (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  No annotations or underlining.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

  Copyright:

  © Succession Gordon Matta-Clark
  © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark

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  • Reference Number: PH2006:0253
  • Title: The Architecture of Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Documentation
  • Dates of creation: published 1973
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Bernhard Leitner (author)
  • Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Press (publisher)
  • Studio International Publications Ltd. (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)
  • Ludwig Wittgenstein (subject)

  Description:

  No annotations or underlining.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Dimensions:

  book: 27,6 × 19 × 0,8 cm (10 7/8 × 7 1/2 × 5/16 in.)

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

  Copyright:

  © Succession Gordon Matta-Clark
  © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark

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  • Reference Number: PH2006:0254
  • Title: My Life and Lives: The Story of a Tibetan Incarnation
  • Dates of creation: published 1977
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Rato Khyongla Nawang Losang (author)
  • E.P. Dutton (Firm) (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  No annotations or underlining.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Dimensions:

  book: 20,8 × 13,4 × 1,3 cm (8 3/16 × 5 1/4 × 1/2 in.)

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

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  • Reference Number: PH2006:0255
  • Title: Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud
  • Dates of creation: published 1962
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Herbert Marcuse (author)
  • Vintage Books (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  Passages underlined on pages 169 and 172-173.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

  Copyright:

  © Succession Gordon Matta-Clark
  © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark

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  • Reference Number: PH2006:0256
  • Title: Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
  • Dates of creation: published 1964
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Marshall McLuhan (author)
  • Signet Books (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  Passages underlined at pages 30, 38, 93 and 127. A State of New York pay stub for $100 is at page 173. The name and phone number of "Richie", and the name and a number of "Barbie", have been inscribed in the front of the book.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Dimensions:

  book: 17,7 × 10,7 × 1,6 cm (6 15/16 × 4 3/16 × 5/8 in.)

  Physical Description:

  The cover and first three pages are torn at lower right corner.

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

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  • Reference Number: PH2006:0257
  • Title: The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance
  • Dates of creation: published 1972
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Peter Murray (author)
  • Schocken Books (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  The name and phone number of "Norman" is inscribed on the front flyleaf.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Dimensions:

  book: 20,1 × 13,5 × 2 cm (7 15/16 × 5 5/16 × 13/16 in.)

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

  Copyright:

  © Succession Gordon Matta-Clark
  © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark

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  • Reference Number: PH2006:0258
  • Title: North American Trees
  • Dates of creation: published 1961
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Richard Joseph Preston (author)
  • M.I.T. Press (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  No annotations or underlining.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Dimensions:

  book: 20,1 × 13,5 × 2,4 cm (7 15/16 × 5 5/16 × 15/16 in.)

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

  Copyright:

  © Succession Gordon Matta-Clark
  © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark

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  • Reference Number: PH2006:0259
  • Title: Black Eros: The sexual customs of Africa from prehistoric times to the present day
  • Dates of creation: published 1964
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Boris de Rachewiltz (author)
  • Lyle Stuart, Inc. (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  Title page is inscribed to Gordon Matta-Clark and Jane Crawford by an unknown person and "Tony". A photograph of five people sitting on a pillow sculpture [?] is also glued to the title page. Underlining in pink on pages 123 and 280.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Physical Description:

  The cover is torn at the spine.

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

  Copyright:

  © Succession Gordon Matta-Clark
  © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark

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  • Reference Number: PH2006:0260
  • Title: Selected Writings: An Introduction to Orgonomy
  • Dates of creation: published 1969
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Wilhelm Reich (author)
  • Noonday Press (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  No annotations or underlining. Bookmark with a printed recipe for Chicken Cacciatore between pages 88 and 89.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Physical Description:

  The front cover is torn.

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

  Copyright:

  © Succession Gordon Matta-Clark
  © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark

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  • Reference Number: PH2006:0261
  • Title: The City: Its Growth, Its Decay, Its Future
  • Dates of creation: published 1965
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Eliel Saarinen (author)
  • M.I.T. Press (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  No annotations or underlining. A receipt for an unknown store and unknown purchase can be found at page 177.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Dimensions:

  book: 20 × 14 × 2,8 cm (7 7/8 × 5 1/2 × 1 1/8 in.)

  Physical Description:

  The front cover is held on by tape. Part of the back cover is missing.

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

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  • Reference Number: PH2006:0262
  • Title: On the Aesthetic Education of Man: In a Series of Letters
  • Dates of creation: published 1965
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Friedrich Schiller (author)
  • Frederick Ungar Publishing Co. (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  No annotations or underlining.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

  Copyright:

  © Succession Gordon Matta-Clark
  © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark

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  • Reference Number: PH2006:0263
  • Title: Living Architecture: Ancient Mexican
  • Dates of creation: published 1968
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Henri Stierlin (author)
  • Grosset & Dunlap (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  No annotations or underlining.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Dimensions:

  book: 21,5 × 21,5 × 2,8 cm (8 7/16 × 8 7/16 × 1 1/8 in.)

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

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  • Reference Number: PH2006:0264
  • Title: Selected Readings from the works of Mao Tsetung
  • Dates of creation: published 1961
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Mao Zedong (author)
  • Wai wen chu ban she. (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  No annotations or underlining.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

  Copyright:

  © Succession Gordon Matta-Clark
  © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark

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  • Reference Number: PH2006:0265
  • Title: Visionary Architects: Boullée, Ledoux, Lequeu
  • Dates of creation: published 1968
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • University of St. Thomas (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  No annotations or underlining.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Dimensions:

  book: 22.7 × 22.8 × 2.5 cm (8 15/16 × 9 × 1 in.)

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

  Copyright:

  © Succession Gordon Matta-Clark
  © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark

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  • Reference Number: PH2006:0266
  • Title: Homegrown Sundwellings
  • Dates of creation: published 1977
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Peter Van Dresser (author)
  • Lightning Tree (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (dedicatee)

  Description:

  The book is inscribed to Gordon Matta-Clark on the front flyleaf by Peter van Dresser.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Dimensions:

  book: 21,4 × 13,6 × 0,9 cm (8 7/16 × 5 3/8 × 3/8 in.)

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

  Copyright:

  © Succession Gordon Matta-Clark
  © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark

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  • Reference Number: PH2006:0267
  • Title: Piranesi
  • Dates of creation: published 1978
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • John Wilton-Ely (author)
  • Arts Council of Great Britain (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)
  • Alisée Matta (artist)
  • Roberto Matta (role unspecified)
  • Giovanni Battista Piranesi (subject)

  Description:

  On the title page there is an inscription from Roberto Matta to Gordon Matta-Clark. Included in the front cover is a loose drawing and two-page story by Aliséé Matta, daughter of Roberto and Germana Matta, made for her brother, Matta-Clark.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Dimensions:

  book: 23,3 × 19,2 × 2,2 cm (9 3/16 × 7 9/16 × 7/8 in.)

  Physical Description:

  A drawing and a two-page story is loose in the front cover.

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

  Copyright:

  © Succession Gordon Matta-Clark
  © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark

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  • Reference Number: PH2006:0268
  • Title: Philosophical Investigations
  • Dates of creation: published 1968
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Ludwig Wittgenstein (author)
  • Macmillan Publishing Company. (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  No annotations or underlining.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Dimensions:

  book: 20,5 × 13,5 × 1,5 cm (8 1/16 × 5 5/16 × 9/16 in.)

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

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  • Reference Number: PH2006:0269
  • Title: Architectural Principles: In the Age of Humanism
  • Dates of creation: published 1965
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Rudolf Wittkower (author)
  • Random House (Firm) (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  The name "Stoumen" is inscribed on the front flyleaf.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Dimensions:

  book: 20.2 × 13.8 × 2.2 cm (7 15/16 × 5 7/16 × 7/8 in.)

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

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  • Reference Number: PH2006:0274
  • Title: Catalogue for the Department of Real Estate's auction of the surplus city-owned real estate, New York City, New York
  • Dates of creation: 29 January 1974
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • New York (N.Y.). Dept. of Real Estate (author)

  Description:

  Phone number in Gordon Matta-Clark's hand is on the cover.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 catalogue(s)

  Document Type:

  • auction catalog

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

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  • Reference Number: PH2008:0020
  • Title: Paradise Lost
  • Dates of creation: published 1962
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • John Milton (author)
  • Odyssey Press (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  Heavily annotated.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Dimensions:

  book: 20.2 × 14.5 × 2 cm (7 15/16 × 5 11/16 × 13/16 in.)

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift ot the Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

  Copyright:

  © Odyssey Press

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  • Reference Number: PHCON2002:0016:093:001
  • Title: Theory and Design in the First Machine Age
  • Dates of creation: published 1967
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Reyner Banham (author)
  • Fredrick A. Praeger (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  No annotations or underlining.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Dimensions:

  book: 22,5 × 14 × 3 cm (8 7/8 × 5 1/2 × 1 3/16 in.)

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

  Copyright:

  © Succession Gordon Matta-Clark
  © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark

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  • Reference Number: PHCON2002:0016:093:002
  • Title: Ways of Seeing
  • Dates of creation: published 1975
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • John Berger (author)
  • Pelican Books (publisher)
  • British Broadcasting Corporation (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  Annotations on pages 33, 47 and 63.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Dimensions:

  book: 19,7 × 12,9 × 1,1 cm (7 3/4 × 5 1/16 × 7/16 in.)

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

  Copyright:

  © Succession Gordon Matta-Clark
  © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark

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  • Reference Number: PHCON2002:0016:093:003
  • Title: Alchemy: Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul
  • Dates of creation: published 1967
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Titus Burckhardt (author)
  • Stuart & Watkins (publisher)
  • Samuel Weiser Inc. (distributor)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  Heavily underlined throughout.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Dimensions:

  book: 20,7 × 12,7 × 2 cm (8 1/8 × 5 × 13/16 in.)

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

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  • Reference Number: PHCON2002:0016:093:004
  • Title: Gold Makers: Ten Thousand Years of Alchemy
  • Dates of creation: published 1948
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • K.K. Doberer (author)
  • Nicholson & Watson (publisher)
  • Samuel Weiser Inc. (distributor)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  No annotations or underlining. On back of dust jacket: "Paul de Kruf/ Rockburne".

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Dimensions:

  book: 22,2 × 14,7 × 3,9 cm (8 3/4 × 5 13/16 × 1 9/16 in.)

  Physical Description:

  The cover is torn.

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

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  • Reference Number: PHCON2002:0016:093:005
  • Title: Planning and Cities: Village Planning in the Primitive World
  • Dates of creation: published 1968
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Douglas Fraser (author)
  • George Braziller (architect)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  No annotations or underlining.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

  Copyright:

  © Succession Gordon Matta-Clark
  © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark

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  • Reference Number: PHCON2002:0016:093:006
  • Title: Astrology and Alchemy: Two Fossil Sciences
  • Dates of creation: published 1953
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Mark Graubard (author)
  • Philosophical Library, Inc. (publisher)
  • Samuel Weiser Inc. (distributor)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  No annotations or underlining.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Dimensions:

  book: 23,3 × 15,9 × 3,3 cm (9 3/16 × 6 1/4 × 1 5/16 in.)

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

  Copyright:

  © Succession Gordon Matta-Clark
  © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark

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  • Reference Number: PHCON2002:0016:093:007
  • Title: Herald of Coming Good: First Appeal to Contemporary Humanity
  • Dates of creation: published 1971
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff (author)
  • Samuel Weiser Inc. (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  No annotations or underlining.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Dimensions:

  book: 21,5 × 13,7 × 0,7 cm (8 7/16 × 5 3/8 × 1/4 in.)

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

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  • Reference Number: PHCON2002:0016:093:008
  • Title: Devils, Drugs, and Doctors
  • Dates of creation: published 1929
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Hoard W. Haggard, M.D. (author)
  • Blue Ribbon Books (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  No annotations or underlining.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Dimensions:

  book: 21.3 × 15 × 4.3 cm (8 3/8 × 5 7/8 × 1 11/16 in.)

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

  Copyright:

  © Succession Gordon Matta-Clark
  © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark

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  • Reference Number: PHCON2002:0016:093:009
  • Title: Life and Soul of Paracelsus
  • Dates of creation: published 1951
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • John Hargrave (author)
  • Victor Gollancz Ltd. (publisher)
  • Samuel Weiser Inc. (distributor)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  No annotations or underlining.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Dimensions:

  book: 22 × 14.7 × 2.9 cm (8 11/16 × 5 13/16 × 1 1/8 in.)

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

  Copyright:

  © Succession Gordon Matta-Clark
  © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark

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  • Reference Number: PHCON2002:0016:093:010
  • Title: Social History of Art, Vol. 4: Naturalism, Impressionism, The Film Age
  • Dates of creation: published 1951
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Arnold Hauser (author)
  • Vintage Books (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  No annotations or underlining.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

  Copyright:

  © Succession Gordon Matta-Clark
  © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark

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  • Reference Number: PHCON2002:0016:093:011
  • Title: Psychology and Alchemy
  • Dates of creation: published 1968
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • C.G. Jung (author)
  • Princeton University Press (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  Heavily underlined. Blank page from Syracuse Blue Print Company tablet between pages 76-77. Call slips from New York Public Library for Lillian E. Hawker, "An Introduction to the Biology of Microrganisms", 1961 and R. S. Dubos, "The Unseen World", 1962.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Dimensions:

  book: 23,4 × 15,7 × 5 cm (9 3/16 × 6 3/16 × 1 15/16 in.)

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

  Copyright:

  © Succession Gordon Matta-Clark
  © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark

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  • Reference Number: PHCON2002:0016:093:012
  • Title: Memories, Dreams, Reflections
  • Dates of creation: published 1963
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • C.G. Jung (author)
  • Vintage Books (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  Heavily underlined. On page 195 there is a small drawing of a pig.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Dimensions:

  book: 19,9 × 13,1 × 2 cm (7 13/16 × 5 3/16 × 13/16 in.)

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

  Copyright:

  © Succession Gordon Matta-Clark
  © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark

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  • Reference Number: PHCON2002:0016:093:013
  • Title: Peyote Cult
  • Dates of creation: published 1969
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Weston La Barre (author)
  • Schocken Books (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  First page has notes and telephone numbers. Bookmark with the time: 11 AM. folded form," Application for Itinerant Vehicles" from the Department of Consumer Affairs, NYC.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Dimensions:

  book: 20,1 × 13,5 × 1,5 cm (7 15/16 × 5 5/16 × 9/16 in.)

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

  Copyright:

  © Succession Gordon Matta-Clark
  © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark

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  • Reference Number: PHCON2002:0016:093:014
  • Title: Raw and the Cooked: Introduction to a Science of Mythology, 1
  • Dates of creation: published 1969
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Claude Levi-Strauss (author)
  • Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  There are two pages of drawings on the blank pages at the end of the book.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Dimensions:

  book: 20.3 × 13.5 × 2.9 cm (8 × 5 5/16 × 1 1/8 in.)

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

  Copyright:

  © Succession Gordon Matta-Clark
  © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark

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  • Reference Number: PHCON2002:0016:093:015
  • Title: George Lukacs
  • Dates of creation: published 1970
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • George Lichtheim (author)
  • The Viking Press (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  No annotations or underlining[?].

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

  Copyright:

  © Succession Gordon Matta-Clark
  © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark

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  • Reference Number: PHCON2002:0016:093:016
  • Title: Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer
  • Dates of creation: published 1972
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 1

  People:

  • John C. Lilly, M.D. (author)
  • The Julian Press, Inc. (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  Passages underlined on pages 92-93, 111, 122 and 125. There is a drawing on the first page. There is a receipt from Paperback Corner (MacDougal & 9th) 7 March 1973.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Dimensions:

  book: 22,5 × 15,3 × 2 cm (8 7/8 × 6 × 13/16 in.)

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

  Copyright:

  © Succession Gordon Matta-Clark
  © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark

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    • PHCON2002:0016:093:016.1
    • Ticket for "A Valentine for Marcel Duchamp: Evening event for students
    • Form: textual records
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  • Reference Number: PHCON2002:0016:093:017
  • Title: Major Achievements of Science
  • Dates of creation: published 1967
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • A.E.E. Mckenzie (author)
  • Cambridge at the University Press (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  Passages underlined on pages 17-18 and 91.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

  Copyright:

  © Succession Gordon Matta-Clark
  © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark

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  • Reference Number: PHCON2002:0016:093:018
  • Title: Sense and Non-Sense
  • Dates of creation: published 1964
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Maurice Merleau-Ponty (author)
  • Northwestern University Press (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  Passages underlined on pages 11-12.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

  Copyright:

  © Succession Gordon Matta-Clark
  © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark

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  • Reference Number: PHCON2002:0016:093:019
  • Title: Moholy-Nagy Experiment in Totality
  • Dates of creation: published 1969
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Sibyl Moholy-Nagy (author)
  • M.I.T. Press (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  No annotations or underlining.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

  Copyright:

  © Succession Gordon Matta-Clark
  © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark

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  • Reference Number: PHCON2002:0016:093:020
  • Title: A New Model of the Universe
  • Dates of creation: published 1946
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • P.D. Ouspensky (author)
  • Alfred A. Knopf (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  No annotations or underlining.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Dimensions:

  book: 24,2 × 16,6 × 4,5 cm (9 1/2 × 6 9/16 × 1 3/4 in.)

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

  Copyright:

  © Succession Gordon Matta-Clark
  © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark

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  • Reference Number: PHCON2002:0016:093:021
  • Title: This Cybernetic World of Men, Machines, and Earth
  • Dates of creation: published 1973
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • V.L. Parsegian (author)
  • Anchor Books (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  No annotations or underlining.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Dimensions:

  book: 18 × 10,7 × 1,6 cm (7 1/16 × 4 3/16 × 5/8 in.)

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

  Copyright:

  © Succession Gordon Matta-Clark
  © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark

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  • Reference Number: PHCON2002:0016:093:022
  • Title: Prelude to Chemistry: An Outline of Alchemy. Its Literature and Relationships
  • Dates of creation: published 1966
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • John Read (author)
  • M.I.T. Press (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  No annotations or underlining.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Dimensions:

  book: 20,2 × 13,7 × 2,7 cm (7 15/16 × 5 3/8 × 1 1/16 in.)

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

  Copyright:

  © Succession Gordon Matta-Clark
  © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark

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  • Reference Number: PHCON2002:0016:093:023
  • Title: The Tree of Life
  • Dates of creation: published 1969
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Israel Regardie (author)
  • Samuel Weiser Inc. (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  No annotations or underlining.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Dimensions:

  book: 23,2 × 15,5 × 2,7 cm (9 1/8 × 6 1/8 × 1 1/16 in.)

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

  Copyright:

  © Succession Gordon Matta-Clark
  © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark

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  • Reference Number: PHCON2002:0016:093:024
  • Title: The Tarot: A Contemporary Course of the Quintessence of Hermetic Occultism
  • Dates of creation: published 1970
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Mouni Sadhu (author)
  • Wiltshire Book Company (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  No annotations or underlining.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Dimensions:

  book: 20,9 × 13,3 × 3 cm (8 1/4 × 5 1/4 × 1 3/16 in.)

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

  Copyright:

  © Succession Gordon Matta-Clark
  © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark

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  • Reference Number: PHCON2002:0016:093:025
  • Title: The Architecture of Humanism: A Study in the History of Taste
  • Dates of creation: published 1924
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Geoffrey Scott (author)
  • Doubleday Anchor Books (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  Extensive underlining.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Dimensions:

  book: 18 × 10,6 × 1 cm (7 1/16 × 4 3/16 × 3/8 in.)

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

  Copyright:

  © Succession Gordon Matta-Clark
  © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark

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  • Reference Number: PHCON2002:0016:093:026
  • Title: Intelligent Life in the Universe
  • Dates of creation: published 1966
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Carl Sagan (author)
  • I.S. Shklovskii (author)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  No annotations or underlining.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

  Copyright:

  © Succession Gordon Matta-Clark
  © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark

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  • Reference Number: PHCON2002:0016:093:027
  • Title: Great Ideas and Theories of Modern Cosmology
  • Dates of creation: published 1970
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Jagjit Singh (author)
  • Dover Publications, Inc. (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  No annotations or underlining.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Dimensions:

  book: 21,2 × 13,5 × 2,2 cm (8 3/8 × 5 5/16 × 7/8 in.)

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

  Copyright:

  © Succession Gordon Matta-Clark
  © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark

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  • Reference Number: PHCON2002:0016:093:028
  • Title: The Forest People: A Study of the Pygmies of the Congo
  • Dates of creation: published 1968
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Colin M. Turnbull (author)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  No annotations or underlining.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark/
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

  Copyright:

  © Succession Gordon Matta-Clark
  © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark

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  • Reference Number: PHCON2002:0016:093:029
  • Title: The Triumphal Chariot of Antimony
  • Dates of creation: published 1962
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Basilius Valentinus (author)
  • Vincent Stuart Ltd (publisher)
  • Samuel Weiser Inc. (distributor)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  No annotations or underlining.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Dimensions:

  book: 20,1 × 13,6 × 2,5 cm (7 15/16 × 5 3/8 × 1 in.)

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

  Copyright:

  © Succession Gordon Matta-Clark
  © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark

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  • Reference Number: PHCON2002:0016:093:030
  • Title: Homegrown Sundwellings
  • Dates of creation: published 1977
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Peter Van Dresser (author)
  • Lightning Tree (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  No annotations or underlining.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

  Copyright:

  © Succession Gordon Matta-Clark
  © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark

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  • Reference Number: PHCON2002:0016:093:031
  • Title: The Secret Tradition of Alchemy
  • Dates of creation: published 1969
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Arthur Edward Waite (author)
  • Samuel Weiser Inc. (publisher)
  • Samuel Weiser Inc. (distributor)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  Passages underlined on pages 41-44 and 72.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Dimensions:

  book: 24,6 × 16,5 × 3,9 cm (9 11/16 × 6 1/2 × 1 9/16 in.)

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

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  • Reference Number: PHCON2002:0016:093:032
  • Title: The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness
  • Dates of creation: published 1962
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Alan W. Watts (author)
  • Vintage Books (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  No annotations or underlining. Stamp on first page: William C. Reed/508 Harvard Ave/Swarthmore, PA 19081.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Dimensions:

  book: 20,1 × 13,1 × 1 cm (7 15/16 × 5 3/16 × 3/8 in.)

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

  Copyright:

  © Succession Gordon Matta-Clark
  © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark

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  • Reference Number: PHCON2002:0016:093:033
  • Title: Cybernetics: or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
  • Dates of creation: published 1965
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Norbert Wiener (author)
  • M.I.T. Press (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)
  • Michael Rudnick (referent)

  Description:

  The name "Michael Rudick" is inscribed on the first page.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Dimensions:

  book: 20,9 × 13 × 1,7 cm (8 1/4 × 5 1/8 × 11/16 in.)

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

  Copyright:

  © Succession Gordon Matta-Clark
  © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark

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  • Reference Number: PHCON2002:0016:093:034
  • Title: The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things
  • Dates of creation: published 1973
  • Form: books
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • George Kubler (author)
  • Yale University Press (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  No annotations or underlining.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 book(s)

  Dimensions:

  book: 20,1 × 12,9 × 0,8 cm (7 15/16 × 5 1/16 × 5/16 in.)

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

  Copyright:

  © Succession Gordon Matta-Clark
  © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark

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  • Reference Number: PH2006:0270
  • Title: Twenty Six by Twenty Six
  • Dates of creation: published 1971

  People:

  • Vassar College. Art Gallery (publisher)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (artist)
  • Gordon Matta-Clark (collector)

  Description:

  No annotations or underlining. This is a catalogue for the exhibition "Twenty Six by Twenty Six", held at the Vassar College Art Gallery, between 1 May - 6 June 1971, in which Gordon Matta-Clark participated.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 catalogue(s)

  Dimensions:

  book (closed): 26,8 x 20,8 cm

  Document Type:

  • exhibition catalog

  Credit line:

  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture /
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  Don de la succession Gordon Matta-Clark /
  Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
  

  Copyright:

  © Succession Gordon Matta-Clark
  © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark