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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, Mass. : MIT Press, �2000.Description: 1 online resource (xx, 280 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 058527858X
  • 9780585278582
  • 9780262278072
  • 0262278073
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Object to be destroyed.DDC classification:
  • 731.84 21
LOC classification:
  • N6537.M3947 L44 2000eb
Other classification:
  • 20.54
  • ARC 025M
  • LI 99999
Online resources:
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.
Review: "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."--BOOK JACKET. "In this first critical account of Matta-Clark's work, Lee considers it in the context of the art of the 1970s - particularly site-specific, conceptual, and minimalist practices - and its confrontation with issues of community, property, the alienation of urban space, the "right to the city," and the ideologies of progress that have defined modern building programs."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-271) and index.

"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."--BOOK JACKET. "In this first critical account of Matta-Clark's work, Lee considers it in the context of the art of the 1970s - particularly site-specific, conceptual, and minimalist practices - and its confrontation with issues of community, property, the alienation of urban space, the "right to the city," and the ideologies of progress that have defined modern building programs."--Jacket.

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.

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English.

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