Gordon Matta-Clark : physical poetics /
This book examines wordplay in the art and thought of American artist Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978). Blending close reading, reception history and critical biography, this study looks at linguistic and semiotic forms in Matta-Clark's sculptures, performances, films, photographs and drawings, f...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2019]
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| Summary: | This book examines wordplay in the art and thought of American artist Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978). Blending close reading, reception history and critical biography, this study looks at linguistic and semiotic forms in Matta-Clark's sculptures, performances, films, photographs and drawings, forms that activate what the artist called the 'poetics of psycho-locus' and 'total (semiotic) system.' Looking at notes, statements, titles, letters and interviews, Frances Richard appraises the paradoxical durability of Matta-Clark's language, and its role in an aggressively physical oeuvre whose major works have been destroyed. |
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| Physical Description: | 525 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates (some color) : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520299092 0520299094 |