Title & Author:

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

Publication:

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

Description:

xi, 169 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 27 cm.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Nothing works: Gordon Matta-Clark and the problem of architecture / Antonio Sergio Bessa -- Bronx floors : Directing energy: Gordon Matta-Clark's pursuit of social sculpture / Cara M. Jordan -- Graffiti : Urbanism and revolution: 2 or 3 things about Gordon Matta-Clark and Georges Bataille / Xavier Wrona -- Architecture / Georges Bataille -- Conical intersect/Day's end : Architecture as a stage for action: an interview with Jessamyn Fiore / Antonio Sergio Bessa -- Walls.
Text in English.

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." --description provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780300230437 (hardback)
0300230435 (hardback)

Subject:

Matta-Clark, Gordon, 1943-1978 Exhibitions.
Matta-Clark, Gordon, 1943-1978 Criticism and interpretation.
Matta-Clark, Gordon, 1943-1978.
Art and architecture United States 20th century.
Conceptual art United States 20th century Exhibitions.
Site-specific art 20th century Exhibitions.
Art et architecture États-Unis 20e siècle.
Art conceptuel États-Unis 20e siècle Expositions.
Œuvres in situ 20e siècle Expositions.
Art and Design.
Art and architecture
Conceptual art
Site-specific art
United States

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
photobooks.
Photobooks
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Catalogues d'exposition.
Livres de photographies.

Added entries:

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.
United States New York New York
United States Connecticut New Haven.

Anarchitect

Holdings:

Location: Library main 298354
Call No.: BIB 244626
Status: Available