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Author Lee, Pamela M.

Title Object to be destroyed : the work of Gordon Matta-Clark / Pamela M. Lee
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 280 pages) : illustrations
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."--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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-271) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Matta-Clark, Gordon, 1943-1978 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Matta-Clark, Gordon, 1943-1978 fast
Matta-Clark, Gordon, 1945-1978. gnd
Matta-Clark, Gordon, (1945- ) -- Critique et interprétation. ram
Matta-Clark, Gordon. swd
Subject Deconstructivism (Architecture) -- Influence
ART -- Sculpture & Installation.
Dekonstruktion
Aktionskunst
Environments.
Gebouwen.
Deconstructie.
Visual Arts.
Art, Architecture & Applied Arts.
Visual Arts - General.
Déconstructivisme (architecture)
Land art.
Environnement (art)
Art in situ.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Matta-Clark, Gordon, 1943-1978
LC no. 99017978
ISBN 058527858X
9780585278582
9780262278072
0262278073