{"product_id":"gordon-matta-clark-anarchitect-0300230435","title":"Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitect","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0300230435\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Antonio Sergio Bessa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis revealing book looks at the groundbreaking work of Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978), whose socially conscious practice blurred the boundaries between contemporary art and architecture. After completing a degree in architecture at Cornell University, Matta-Clark returned to his home city of New York, where he initiated a series of site-specific works in derelict areas of the South Bronx. The borough's many abandoned buildings, the result of economic decline and middle-class flight, served as Matta-Clark's raw material. His series 'Bronx Floors' dissected these structures, performing an anatomical study of ther ravaged urban landscape. Moving from New York to Paris with 'Conical Interserct', a piece that became emblematic of artistic protest, Matta-Clark applied this same method to a pair of seventeenth-century row houses slatted for demolition as a result of the Centre Pompidou's construction. This compelling volume grounds Matta-Clark's practice against the framework of architectural and urban history, stressing his pioneering activist-inspired approach, as well as his contribution to the nascent fields of social practice and relational aesthetics.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":51498749493536,"sku":"NEW0300230435","price":50.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Used - Good","offer_id":51498749526304,"sku":"USED0300230435","price":51.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/content_3fc6992d-9218-44a0-9ab5-37f48a8bd006.jpg?v=1776674817","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/gordon-matta-clark-anarchitect-0300230435","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}