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Blending close readings of Matta-Clark’s visual and verbal creations with reception history and critical biography, this extensively researched study engages with the linguistic and semiotic forms in Matta-Clark’s art, forms that activate what he called the “poetics of psycho-locus” and “total (semiotic) system.” Examining notes, statements, titles, letters, and interviews in light of what they reveal about his work at large, Frances Richard unearths archival, biographical, and historical information, linking Matta-Clark to Conceptualist peers and Surrealist and Dada forebears. Gordon Matta-Clark: Physical Poetics explores the paradoxical durability of Matta-Clark’s language, and its role in an aggressively physical oeuvre whose major works have been destroyed.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49729685782801,"sku":"NGR9780520299092","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51002956022033,"sku":"NIN9780520299092","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0520299094.jpg?v=1751166921"},{"product_id":"i-stand-in-my-place-with-my-own-day-here-book-frances-richard-9781478008088","title":"I Stand in My Place with My Own Day Here","description":"I Stand in My Place with My Own Day Here features essays by more than fifty renowned international writers considering thirteen monumental works of art commissioned by The New School between 1930 and the present.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49734055756049,"sku":"NGR9781478008088","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52744173617425,"sku":"NIN9781478008088","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1478008083.jpg?v=1763475951"},{"product_id":"anarch-book-frances-richard-9780982279878","title":"Anarch.","description":"Poetry. This collection of poems addresses the fundamental question of our time: what is it to be human? If we are strange to each other and ourselves, then how do we know it? What is strangeness if not a recognition of something we can recognize? We can no longer see the earth (especially from the sky) as uneffected by all our experiments, hurled down, trashed, in pursuit of happiness. Frances Richard goes to the material roots of our search and turns away, and takes off, after another purpose. This book has the spirit of anthropology and philosophy, and also reveals the underlying structures of these two disciplines as a problem for artists to solve. Why? Because if words go down with the rest, and lose their light, we are really finished. Richard is doing what poets are asked to be doing now.--Fanny Howe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrances Richards ANARCH. is a geology of linguistic quirks that recombine the gobbets of our world with clarity and mirth. Lines sound the certainties of science (rocks and processes 'drunk on the liquor of difficulty'), then playfully slip on neologistic terrain. Here, a poem is a hopeful structure, a plastic flow of solids set into motion by a subatomic rhizome of intraquarky layers. ANARCH. is a serious pleasure.--Jena Osman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe thoughts which are occasionally called forth in ANARCH. are such as could only be produced by an imagination in the highest degree fervid and active, to which materials were supplied by incessant study and unlimited curiosity. 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