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Gordon Matta-Clark by Frances Richard Bringing a poet's perspective to an artist's archive, this book examines wordplay in the art and thought of American artist Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978). In studies of his career, the artist's provocative and vivid language is referenced constantly. Yet the verbal aspect of his practice has not previously been examined in its own right. Blending close readings of Matta-Clark's visual and verbal creations with reception history and critical biography, this extensively researched study engages with the linguistic and semiotic forms in Matta-Clark's art, forms that activate what he called the "poetics of psycho-locus" and "total (semiotic) system." Examining notes, statements, titles, letters, and interviews in light of what they reveal about his work at large, Frances Richard unearths archival, biographical, and historical information, linking Matta-Clark to Conceptualist peers and Surrealist and Dada forebears.

CP138 Gordon Matta-Clark by Yann Chateigné, Hila Peleg, and Kitty Scott "This book unpacks the comprehensive Gordon Matta-Clark collection at the CCA (CP138), opening it up to provisional readings from different points of view. Yann Chateigné reorganizes Matta-Clark's library into areas of inquiry, from alchemy to psychoanalysis, as a framework for gathering traces -- written and drawn -- of his thinking. Hila Peleg reassembles hours of discarded film footage, challenging the notion of documentation and returning to view the physical and social contexts.

Cutting Matta-Clark: the Anarchitecture Investigation by Gordon Matta Clark (Artist); Mark Wigley (Text by) "Cutting Matta-Clark" investigates the Anarchitecture group as a kind of collective research seminar, through extensive interviews with the protagonists and a dossier of all the available evidence. The dossier includes a collection of Matta-Clark's aphoristic "art cards," the 96 photographs that were produced by the various participants for possible inclusion in the exhibition, and images from a recently unearthed video of Matta-Clark's now famous bus trip to see Splitting in Englewood, New Jersey.

Gordon Matta-Clark: Experience Becomes the Object by Carlos Navarrete (Text by); Harold Berg (Afterword by); Gordon Matta-Clark (Artist); Pedro Donoso (Editor); Caroline Goodden (Text by); Gerry Hovagimyan (Text by); Flor Bex (Text by); Gwendolyn Owens (Text by) "Gordon Matta-Clark: Experience Becomes the Object" collects five essays and ten individual interviews with various friends and family members of Matta-Clark's. Together, they outline a biographical profile and offer an analysis of the historical period in which the artist developed his short but successful career.

Gordon Matta-Clark: the Beginning of Trees and the End by Briony Fer (Text by); Sarah Sze; Jessamyn Fiore Documenting the artist's extraordinary accomplishments as a draftsman, this publication originates from the 2015 solo presentation at David Zwirner, New York, entitled Energy & Abstraction, organized in close collaboration with Jane Crawford and Jessamyn Fiore from the Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark. This catalogue presents selections from Matta-Clark's Cut Drawings, Energy Rooms, Energy Trees, and his own "calligraphy," many of which have never been published. Perhaps the best known of the group, the Cut Drawings explore parallel, smaller-format versions of his physical interventions in architecture; slicing meticulously through several layers of paper, gesso, or cardboard, Matta-Clark created sculptural flat works that emphasized the voids created by the extraction of matter.

Gordon Matta-Clark's Conical intersect: Sculpture, Space, and the Cultural Value of Urban Imagery by Peter Muir In this in-depth analysis, Peter Muir argues that Gordon Matta-Clark’s Conical Intersect (1975) is emblematic of Henri Lefebvre’s understanding of art’s function in relation to urban space. By engaging with Lefebvre’s theory in conjunction with the perspectives of other writers, such as Michel de Certeau, Jacques Derrida, and George Bataille, the book elicits a story that presents the artwork’s significance, origins, and legacies.

Gordon Matta-Clark by Gordon Matta-Clark (Artist); Lorenzo Fusi (Editor); Marco Pierini (Editor); James Attlee (Text by); Jane Crawford (Text by) This catalogue covers the brief but groundbreaking career of the self-proclaimed "anarchitect" Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978), one of the most influential American artists of the 1970s.