Gordon Matta-Clark: Art, Architecture and the Attack on Modernism

by Stephen Walker

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845119665
• ISBN13: 9781845119669
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"