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In the early 1970s, Matta-Clark developed the idea of anarchitecture, which encompassed his interest in voids, gaps and left-over spaces. Gordon Matta-Clark: Experience Becomes the Object collects five essays and ten individual interviews with various friends and family members of Matta-Clark's. Together, they outline a biographical profile and offer an analysis of the historical period in which the artist developed his short but successful career. New, never-before-published material and photographs as well as an exclusive link to the documentary Crosswords: Matta-Clark's Friends by Matias Cardone are also included.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49739420565777,"sku":"NGR9788434313552","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51063729651985,"sku":"NIN9788434313552","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52656445718801,"sku":"NLS9788434313552","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/8434313553.jpg?v=1751384524"},{"product_id":"gordon-matta-clark-book-gordon-matta-clark-9780520280267","title":"Gordon Matta-Clark","description":"An essential reference that provides new understanding of the thought processes of one of the most radical artists of the late twentieth century.   Gordon Matta-Clark (1943–1978) has never been an easy artist to categorize or to explain. Although trained as an architect, he has been described as a sculptor, a photographer, an organizer of performances, and a writer of manifestos, but he is best known for un-building abandoned structures. In the brief span of his career, from 1968 to his early death in 1978, he created an oeuvre that has made him an enduring cult figure.     In 2002, when Gordon Matta-Clark’s widow, Jane Crawford, put his archive on deposit at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, it revealed a new voice in the ongoing discussion of artist\/architect Matta-Clark’s work: his own. Gwendolyn Owens and Philip Ursprung’s careful selection and ordering of letters, interviews, statements, and the now-famous art cards from the CCA as well as other sources deepens our understanding of one of the most original thinkers of his generation. Gordon Matta-Clark: An Archival Sourcebook creates a multidimensional portrait that provides an opportunity for readers to explore and enjoy the complexity and contradiction that was Gordon Matta-Clark.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49742706934033,"sku":"NGR9780520280267","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0520280261.jpg?v=1751446692"},{"product_id":"gordon-matta-clark-doors-floors-doors-book-gordon-matta-clark-9780996893022","title":"Gordon Matta-Clark: Doors, Floors, Doors","description":"MoMA PS1 presents the fourth iteration of Greater New York. Recurring every five years, the exhibition has traditionally showcased the work of emerging artists living and working in the New York metropolitan area. Considering the \"greater\" aspect of its title in terms of both geography and time, Greater New York. begins roughly with the moment when MoMA PS1 was founded in 1976 as an alternative venue that took advantage of disused real estate, reaching back to artists who engaged the margins of the city.  In conjunction with the exhibition, MoMA PS1 is publishing a series of readers that will be released throughout the run of the exhibition. These short volumes revisit older histories of New York while also inviting speculation about its future, highlighting certain works in the exhibition and engaging a range of subjects including disco, performance anxiety, real estate and newly unearthed historical documents. The series features contributions from Fia Backstr�m, Mark Beasley, Gregg Bordowitz, Susan Cianciolo, Douglas Crimp, Catherine Damman, David Grubbs, Angie Keefer, Aidan Koch, Glenn Ligon, Gordon Matta-Clark, Claudia Rankine, Collier Schorr, and Sukhdev Sandhu, concluding with a round-table conversation with exhibition curators Peter Eleey, Douglas Crimp, Thomas J. Lax and Mia Locks. 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Matta-Clark used discarded, scavenged materials—old pieces of wood, doors—to subdivide the space inside the dumpster, creating corridors and small rooms within the container. Dancers and artists moved around the space, their pedestrian movements activating the sculpture and captured in a Super-8 film of the piece.   Matta-Clark is best known for his building cuts and architectural interventions. Because of the nature of this work and its context—sited in spaces abandoned or slated for demolition—Matta-Clark’s “anarchitecture” was almost necessarily ephemeral, surviving as only documentation and sculptural sections. Open House (1972) is the only still-extant architectural piece by Matta-Clark.   Gordon Matta-Clark: Open House is the first publication to focus on this crucial piece by the artist, using it as a way into his complex body of work. Featuring contributions from Sophie Costes, Thierry Davila and Lydia Yee, this volume takes a historical and theoretical approach to Open House and Matta-Clark’s entire oeuvre.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51057863000337,"sku":"NIN9781942884477","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52142428750097,"sku":"NLS9781942884477","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1942884478.jpg?v=1751029085"},{"product_id":"passing-through-moving-in-and-getting-away-with-it-gordon-matta-clark-new-york-c-book-gordon-matta-clark-9798988796039","title":"PASSING THROUGH MOVING IN AND GETTING AWAY WITH IT: Gordon Matta-Clark New York City Graffiti Photographs, 1972–73","description":"From 1972 to 1973, Gordon MaAa-Clark took over fifteen hundred photographs of graffiti in New York City. 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Those pictures are included as well, as they show the relationship between graffiti and themes that are morecommonly associated with the artist's work.An essay by Antonio Sergio Bessa and a text by Jonathan Lethem accompany the photographs.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53613045678353,"sku":"NGR9798988796039","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9798988796039.jpg?v=1780316212"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-gordon-matta-clark.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}