Gordon Matta-Clark

Gordon Matta-Clark

by Stephen Walker
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 07/03/2019

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Known for - and even overshadowed by - his brutal and spectacular building cuts, Gordon Matta-Clark's oeuvre is unique in the history of American art. He worked in the 1970s on the boarders between art and architecture and his diverse practice is often understood as an outright rejection of the tenets of high modernism. Stephen Walker argues instead for the artist's ambivalent relationship with the architectural heritage he is often claimed to disavow, thus making this the first book to extrapolate Matta-Clark's thinking beyond its immediate context.Walker considers the broad range of Matta-Clark's ephemeral practice, from montage to actual interventions and from performance art and installation to drawing, film and video. Bringing to the fore the consistent themes and issues explored through this broad range of media, and in particular the complex notion of the 'discreet violation', he reveals the continued relevance of Matta-Clark's artistic and theoretical oeuvre to the reception of artistic and architectural work today.

ISBN:
9780857736413
9780857736413
Category:
Individual artists
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
07-03-2019
Language:
English
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
Stephen Walker

Stephen Walker is an award-winning BBC journalist.Born in England and educated in Northern Ireland, he has worked for BBC Northern Ireland for 20 years as a television and radio reporter, a documentary maker and a lobby correspondent at Westminster.

He has made numerous current affairs and historical documentaries. Stephen's journalism has been honoured by the Royal Television Society and the Association of European Journalists.

In 2005 he was named the Northern Ireland Journalist of the Year. His first book, Forgotten Soldiers: The Irishmen Shot at Dawn was shortlisted for the 2007 Irish Non Fiction Book of the Year.

He lives in County Down with his wife and family.

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