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Gordon Matta-Clark: Art, Architecture and the Attack on Modernism

Gordon Matta-Clark: Art, Architecture and the Attack on Modernism
Library Shelf Location 18.MATT
Publication Date Apr 2009
Description Known for - and even overshadowed by - his brutal and spectacular building cuts, Gordon Matta-Clark's oeuvre is unique in the history of American art. He worked in the 1970s on the boarders between art and architecture and his diverse practice is often understood as an outright rejection of the tenets of high modernism. Stephen Walker argues instead for the artist's ambivalent relationship with the architectural heritage he is often claimed to disavow, thus making this the first book to extrapolate Matta-Clark's thinking beyond its immediate context.Walker considers the broad range of Matta-Clark's ephemeral practice, from montage to actual interventions and from performance art and installation to drawing, film and video. Bringing to the fore the consistent themes and issues explored through this broad range of media, and in particular the complex notion of the 'discreet violation', he reveals the continued relevance of Matta-Clark's artistic and theoretical oeuvre to the reception of artistic and architectural work today.
ISBN 9781845119669
Quantity 1
Pages 224 Pages
Author Stephen Walker
Format Paperback
Publisher I B Tauris
Related Artist Gordon Matta-Clark
Category Artist (relating to a single artist/collaborative team)
Artist's Nationality American (USA)
Language English

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