Gordon Matta-Clark

Published by Phaidon Press in 2006, this comprehensive monograph serves as a definitive survey of the career of Gordon Matta-Clark, an artist renowned for his transformative 'anarchitecture' projects. Edited by Corinne Diserens, the volume was produced to consolidate the artist’s ephemeral work, much of which involved the physical deconstruction of buildings, into a scholarly framework. It provides extensive documentation of his interventions, such as 'Splitting' and 'Conical Intersect,' which challenged traditional concepts of sculpture and urban space.

The book’s design reflects a minimalist, academic aesthetic consistent with the Phaidon Contemporary Artists series, emphasizing high-quality photographic archives and primary source documents. Through critical essays and excerpts from the artist's own notebooks, the publication contextualizes Matta-Clark's influence on late 20th-century conceptual art. Upon its release, it was widely praised by critics and architectural historians for making Matta-Clark’s often inaccessible, site-specific work available for formal study and preservation.