Object to Be Destroyed: The Work of Gordon Matta-Clark

by Pamela M. Lee

Book Overview

Although highly regarded during his short life - and honoured by artist 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 buidings scheduled for demolition, these works now exist only as sculptural fragments, photographs...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262122200
• ISBN13: 9780262122207
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.3" x 9.3"