Gordon Matta-Clark Research Articles

Baffling Archaeology: The Strange Gravity of Gordon Matta-Clark's Experience-Optics

This article examines some aspects of Gordon Matta-Clark's late filmic works. It notes there the convergence of a variety of concerns from his broader oeuvre (in particular, his criticism of the systematizing tendencies of disciplines such as Architecture, and his interest in the underground, Archaeology and Expanded Cinema) and the emergence of what Matta-Clark termed experience-optics. It goes on to explore experience-optics in terms of the relationships encountered between cinematic image and the broader dimensions of Archaeology, gravity and vertigo, relationships through which the artist sought to encourage an active spectatorship that promised to open out human experience to an `expanded being'.

Object to Be Destroyed: The Work of Gordon Matta-Clark

In this first critical account of Matta-Clark's work, 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. -- Publisher's website.

Main Reviews

The Art BookVolume 7, Issue 4 p. 33-59 Main Reviews First published: 22 December 2003 https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8357.t01-1-00220AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Abstract Books reviewed in this section: Pam Lee, Object to be Destroyed: The Work of Gordon Matta-Clark Alexander Alberro and Blake Stimson, (eds) Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology Michael Newman and Jon Bird, (eds) Rewriting Conceptual Art Debra Pincus, The Tombs of the Doges of Venice Alastair Smart. John Ingamells, (ed) Allan Ramsay: A Complete Catalogue of his Painting Simon Schama, Rembrandt's Eyes Jane Turner, (ed) Encyclopedia of American Art Before 1914 Caroline Dakers, The Holland Park Circle: Artists and Victorian Society Ann Dumas, Caroline Durand-Ruel Godfroy and Christopher Lloyd, Impressionism: Paintings Collected by European Museums Linda Seidel, Legends in Limestone — Lazarus, Gislebertus and the Cathedral of Autun Ed and introduced by Patricia Railing, Malevich on Suprematism, Six Essays: 1915–1926 Douglas Kahn, Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts Kent Emery Jr and Joseph Wawrykow, (eds) Christ Among the Medieval Dominicans John Drury, Painting the Word: Christian Pictures and their Meanings Helen de Borchgrave, A Journey into Christian Art Jed Perl, Eyewitness: Reports from an Art World in Crisis Anthony Blunt. Revised by Richard Beresford, Art and Architecture in France 1500–1700 Brian Fallon with accompanying text by Breon O'Casey, Breon O'Casey Jon Schueler. Magda Salvesen and Diane Cousineau, (eds) The Sound of Sleat — A Painter's Life Catherine Johnston, Helmut Börsch-Supan, Helmut R. Leppien, Kasper Monrad, Baltic Light: Early Open-Air Painting in Denmark and North Germany Megan Holmes, Fra Filippo Lippi: The Carmelite Painter Essay and introduction by Vincent Katz, Life is Paradise — The Portraits of Francesco Clemente Lisa Dennison and Others, Clemente Photographs by Luca Babini. Essay by Rene Ricard, Francesco Clemente — A Portrait James R. Mellow, Walker Evans Maria Morris Hamburg, Walker Evans Peter Galassi, Walker Evans & Company Eugenia Parry, Crime Album Stories: Paris 1886–1902 Robert A Sobieszek, ‘Ghost in the Shell’. Photography and the Human Soul 1850–2000: Essays on Camera Portraiture Richard Avedon and Doon Arbus, The Sixties Anthony Alofsin, (ed) Frank Lloyd Wright: Europe and Beyond Commentaries by Frank O Gehry. Mildred Friedman (ed). Essay by Michael Sorkin, Gehry Talks: Architecture & Process Volume7, Issue4September 2000Pages 33-59 RelatedInformation

Kristine Kristine. Review of "Object to be Destroyed: The Work of Gordon Matta-Clark" by Pamela M. Lee.

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On the Holes of History: Gordon Matta-Clark's Work in Paris

On the Holes of History: Gordon Matta-Clark's Work in Paris