Gordon Matta-Clark
Mary Jane Jacob • 1985 • Museum of Contemporary Art
- Author
- Mary Jane Jacob
- First published
- 1985
- Publisher
- Museum of Contemporary Art
- Genres
- Biography
- Subjects
- Exhibitions · Artists, biography
- ISBN
- 9780933856202
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Published in 1985 by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, this volume serves as a definitive early survey of the work of Gordon Matta-Clark, an artist best known for his site-specific 'building cuts' and exploration of architectural decay. Compiled following the museum's major retrospective of his work, the book was instrumental in canonizing Matta-Clark’s ephemeral interventions, which had previously been experienced primarily through photographs, film, and rumor.
Curated and edited by Mary Jane Jacob, the text provides a scholarly framework for understanding Matta-Clark’s philosophy of 'anarchitecture.' Jacob’s design approach for the monograph prioritized a clean, archival presentation, allowing the raw, structural intensity of Matta-Clark’s cut-away buildings to speak for itself. The publication was well-received by the art historical community for its rigor and its ability to contextualize a transient body of work within the broader discourse of 1970s conceptualism.
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