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Gordon Matta-Clark

Anarchitect

Format: Hardback
Publisher: Yale University Press, United States
Published: 21st Nov 2017
Dimensions: w 194mm h 265mm d 22mm
Weight: 915g
ISBN-10: 0300230435
ISBN-13: 9780300230437
Barcode No: 9780300230437
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Synopsis
"Undoing is just as much a democratic right as doing."---Gordon Matta-Clark 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. Published in association with The Bronx Museum of the Arts Exhibition Schedule: Bronx Museum of the Arts (11/08/17-04/08/18) Jeu de Paume, Paris (06/04/18-09/23/18) Kumu Kunstimuuseum, Tallinn, Estonia (03/01/19-08/04/19) Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA (09/12/19-12/15/2019)

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