Main entry:

Matta-Clark, Gordon, 1943-1978.

Title & Author:

Gordon Matta Clark : you are the measure / edited by Elisabeth Sussman.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York : Whitney Museum of American Art ; New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2007.

Description:

239 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm

Notes:
"This catalogue was published on the occasion of the exhibition "Gordon Matta-Clark : 'You are the measure, '" at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York"--Title page verso.
Catalogue of an exhibition held at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Feb. 22-June 3, 2007 and at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, June-Sept., 2007.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-229) and index.
The mind is vast and ever present / Elisabeth Sussman -- In the spirit of the vegetable : the early works of Gordon Matta-Clark (1969-71) / Tina Kukielski -- Plates I -- Oedipal and edible : Roberto Matta Echaurren and Gordon Matta-Clark / Spyros Papapetros -- Plates II -- Material and process : Gordon Matta-Clark's object legacy / Christian Scheidemann -- Motion pictures : Gordon Matta-Clark / Joan Simon -- Celluloid circus : Gordon Matta-Clark's color cibachromes / Briony Fer -- Plates III -- Lessons learned well : the education of Gordon Matta-Clark / Gwendolyn Owens -- Plates IV -- Works in the exhibition -- The Bex photographic archive.
Includes reproductions of material from the Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark on deposit at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal.

Summary:

This comprehensive book incorporates important new information from the Matta-Clark archive, presenting a compelling reappraisal of the unique beauty and radical nature of Matta-Clark's punnings, plans, performances, and interventions evident in the many media in which he worked.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Table of contents only

ISBN:

9780300123951 (hardcover)
0300123957 (hardcover)
0874271568 (hardcover)
9780874271560 (hardcover)

Subject:

Matta-Clark, Gordon, 1943-1978 Exhibitions.
Matta-Clark, Gordon, 1943-1978.
Conceptual art United States Exhibitions.
Art conceptuel États-Unis Expositions.
Conceptual art.
Art and architecture Exhibitions.
United States.
Centre canadien d'architecture Collection

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Sussman, Elisabeth, 1939-
Whitney Museum of American Art.
Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.)

You are the measure

Holdings:

Location: Library main 250961
Call No.: NA44.M435.9 S9 2007
Status: Available