A01=Antonio Sergio Bessa
A01=Jessamyn Fiore
A32=Cara M. Jordan
A32=Xavier Wrona
activism
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
anarchitecture
anarchy
architecture
Author_Antonio Sergio Bessa
Author_Jessamyn Fiore
automatic-update
bronx museum of the arts
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=ACXJ5
Category=AGA
Category=AGB
centre pompiudou
coffee table book
collection catalogue
conical intersect
contemporary art
COP=United States
cut building
cuts
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
eq_art-fashion-photography
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
food restaurant
jeu de paume paris
kumu art musem tallinn estonia
Language_English
le corbousier
matta
PA=Available
Price_€20 to €50
PS=Active
site specific work
softlaunch
split house
Product details
- ISBN 9780300230437
- Weight: 998g
- Dimensions: 191 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 21 Nov 2017
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
"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
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.
