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Gordon Matta-Clark : physical poetics
Title
Gordon Matta-Clark : physical poetics / Frances Richard.
ISBN
9780520299092
0520299094
Publication
Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2019
Physical Description
525 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary
"This book examines wordplay in the art and thought of American artist Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978). Blending close reading, reception history, and critical biography, this study looks at linguistic and semiotic forms in Matta-Clark's sculptures, performances, films, photographs, and drawings, forms that activate what the artist called the 'poetics of psycho-locus' and 'total (semiotic) system.' Looking at notes, statements, titles, letters, and interviews, Frances Richard appraises the paradoxical durability of Matta-Clark's language, and its role in an aggressively physical oeuvre whose major works have been destroyed"--Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 02, 2019
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : confusion guided by a clear sense of purpose; or, 'a comet, which would have its tail in front'
Total (semiotic) system : reading Gordon Matta-Clark
Anarchitecture as poetic device : Gordon Matta-Clark and the Soho conversation
A silent force : the legacies of Matta and Duchamp
Spacism : Gordon Matta-Clark and the political
Conclusion : within absurdity there is a fantastic freedom.
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