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Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitect

by Antonio Sergio Bessa
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780300230437
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Yale University Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 184
  • Original Price: GBP 37.5
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 907 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Individual Artists / Monographs, History / 20th & 21st Century, and Conceptual

"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)

Antonio Sergio Bessa is director of curatorial and education programs at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. Jessamyn Fiore is a New York-based curator and co-director of the Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark.

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