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Object to be destroyed : the work of Gordon Matta-Clark / Pamela M. Lee.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, c2000.Description: xx, 280 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. ; pbkISBN:
  • 0262122200 (hc : alk. paper)
  • 9780262122207 (hc : alk. paper)
  • 9780262122207:
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 709.2
Contents:
Introduction: Gordon Matta-Clark and the Question of "Work" -- The First Place -- Improper Objects of Modernity -- On Matta-Clark's "Violence"; or, What is a "Phenomenology of the Sublime"? -- On the Holes of History -- Conclusion: to be Contemporary.
Summary: Although highly regarded during his short life—and honored by artists and architects today —the American artist Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-78) has been largely ignored within the history of art. Matta-Clark is best remembered for site-specific projects known as "building cuts." Sculptural transformations of architecture produced through direct cuts into buildings scheduled for demolition, these works now exist only as sculptural fragments, photographs, and film and video documentations. Matta-Clark is also remembered as a catalytic force in the creation of SoHo in the early 1970s. Through loft activities, site projects at the exhibition space 112 Greene Street, and his work at the restaurant Food, he participated in the production of a new social and artistic space.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
General Lending Wexford Campus Library Wexford General Lending 709.2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 62376

CW027

Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-271) and index.

Introduction: Gordon Matta-Clark and the Question of "Work" -- The First Place -- Improper Objects of Modernity -- On Matta-Clark's "Violence"; or, What is a "Phenomenology of the Sublime"? -- On the Holes of History -- Conclusion: to be Contemporary.

Although highly regarded during his short life—and honored by artists and architects today —the American artist Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-78) has been largely ignored within the history of art. Matta-Clark is best remembered for site-specific projects known as "building cuts." Sculptural transformations of architecture produced through direct cuts into buildings scheduled for demolition, these works now exist only as sculptural fragments, photographs, and film and video documentations. Matta-Clark is also remembered as a catalytic force in the creation of SoHo in the early 1970s. Through loft activities, site projects at the exhibition space 112 Greene Street, and his work at the restaurant Food, he participated in the production of a new social and artistic space.

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