{"product_id":"9780300230437","title":"Gordon Matta-Clark : Anarchitect by Cara M. Jordan","description":"\"Undoing is just as much a democratic right as doing.\"---Gordon Matta-Clark This 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. There he employed the term \"anarchitecture,\" combining \"anarchy\" and \"architecture,\" to describe the site-specific works he initially realized in 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 Cuts dissected these structures, performing an anatomical study of the ravaged urban landscape. Moving from New York to Paris with Conical Intersect, a piece that became emblematic of artistic protest, Matta-Clark applied this same method to a pair of 17th-century row houses slated 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.   Published in association with The Bronx Museum of the ArtsExhibition Schedule:Bronx Museum of the Arts (11\/08\/17-04\/08\/18)Jeu de Paume, Paris (06\/04\/18-09\/23\/18)Kumu Kunstimuuseum, Tallinn, Estonia (03\/01\/19-08\/04\/19)Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA (09\/12\/19-12\/15\/2019)\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56231994458485,"sku":"9780300230437","price":37.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780300230437.jpg?v=1762271069","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9780300230437","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}