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Objects to be destroyed (Record no. 3901)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780262621564
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245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Objects to be destroyed
Remainder of title : the work of Gordon Matta-Clark
Statement of responsibility, etc. / Pamela M. Lee
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Massachussetts;
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. MIT Press;
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2001
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 280p;
Dimensions 23x18cm
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. "In this first critical account of Matta-Clark's work, Pamela M. Lee considers it in the context of the art of the 1970s—particularly site-specific, conceptual, and minimalist practices—and its confrontation with issues of community, property, the alienation of urban space, the "right to the city," and the ideologies of progress that have defined modern building programs. Although highly regarded during his short life—and honored by artists and architects today—the American artist Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-78) has been largely ignored within the history of art. Matta-Clark is best remembered for site-specific projects known as "building cuts." Sculptural transformations of architecture produced through direct cuts into buildings scheduled for demolition, these works now exist only as sculptural fragments, photographs, and film and video documentations. Matta-Clark is also remembered as a catalytic force in the creation of SoHo in the early 1970s. Through loft activities, site projects at the exhibition space 112 Greene Street, and his work at the restaurant Food, he participated in the production of a new social and artistic space. Have art historians written so little about Matta-Clark's work because of its ephemerality, or, as Pamela M. Lee argues, because of its historiographic, political, and social dimensions? What did the activity of carving up a building-in anticipation of its destruction—suggest about the conditions of art making, architecture, and urbanism in the 1970s? What was one to make of the paradox attendant on its making—that the production of the object was contingent upon its ruination? How do these projects address the very writing of history, a history that imagines itself building toward an ideal work in the service of progress?
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Language note English
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Topical term or geographic name entry element N8350-8356 Art as a profession. Artists
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Geographic name USA
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700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Lee, Pamela M.
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700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Matta-Clark, Gordon
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Koha item type Book
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Withdrawn status Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Collection Home library Current library Date acquired Total Checkouts Full call number Barcode Date last seen Price effective from Koha item type
    Library of Congress Classification     Visual Arts SAF Reference Library SAF Reference Library 02/14/2023   N8350-8356 130.746 3901 01/17/2024 01/17/2024 Book

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