Description
Identified for – or even overshadowed via – his brutal and impressive development cuts, Gordon Matta-Clark’s oeuvre is exclusive within the historical past of American artwork. He labored within the Seventies at the boarders among artwork and structure and his various apply is regularly understood as an outright rejection of the tenets of top modernism. Stephen Walker argues as a substitute for the artist’s ambivalent dating with the architectural {heritage|historical past|background} he’s regularly claimed to disavow, therefore making this the primary e-book to extrapolate Matta-Clark’s pondering past its speedy context.Walker considers the large vary of Matta-Clark’s ephemeral apply, from montage to precise interventions and from efficiency artwork and install to drawing, movie and video. Bringing to the fore the constant issues and problems explored via this large vary of media, and particularly the complicated perception of the ‘discreet violation’, he unearths the ongoing relevance of Matta-Clark’s inventive and theoretical oeuvre to the reception of inventive and architectural paintings as of late.
