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Gordon Matta-Clark: Art, Architecture and the Attack on Modernism

Stephen Walker

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Known for - and even overshadowed by - his brutal and spectacular building cuts, Gordon Matta-Clark's oeuvre is unique in the history of American art. He worked in the 1970s on the boarders between art and architecture and his diverse practice is often understood as an outright rejection of the tenets of high modernism. Stephen Walker argues instead for the artist's ambivalent relationship with the architectural heritage he is often claimed to disavow, thus making this the first book to extrapolate Matta-Clark's thinking beyond its immediate context.Walker considers the broad range of Matta-Clark's ephemeral practice, from montage to actual interventions and from performance art and installation to drawing, film and video. Bringing to the fore the consistent themes and issues explored through this broad range of media, and in particular the complex notion of the 'discreet violation', he reveals the continued relevance of Matta-Clark's artistic and theoretical oeuvre to the reception of artistic and architectural work today.

Book Details

  • Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
  • Publish Date: Jun 1st, 2009
  • Pages: 224
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.10in - 6.10in - 0.70in - 1.05lb
  • EAN: 9781845119669
  • Categories: • Criticism• Criticism & Theory• Individual Architects & Firms - General

About the Author

Walker, Stephen: -

Stephen Walker is an independent civil and commercial mediator. He has conducted over 750 mediations. He is ranked in the top 40 UK mediators by both Chambers and Partners and Legal 500 and WWL and is on the International Mediation Institute's (IMI) panel of accredited international mediators.

He became an accredited specialist online mediator in 2015 and has done over 150 online mediations. He also undertook specialised training in family and workplace mediation and is dual certified in the USA through INADR.

Stephen is a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the Royal Society of Arts as well as a visiting lecturer in mediation at Kings College London. He is regularly asked to give workshops, talks and presentations on mediation.

Stephen is the author of five mediation books published by Bloomsbury Professional Mediation Advocacy: Representing Clients in Mediation (2nd Ed); Setting Up in Business as a Mediator (2nd Ed); FAQs for Mediators; Mediation: An A-Z Guide; and Mediation Behaviour: Why We Act Like We Do.

For further information please visit www.swalkermediation.com