Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978) is one of the great heroes of late twentieth-century art, a cult figure as much in the contemporary art world as on the architecture scene, whose work is independent from any movement or school. This book is the first and definitive monograph on the artist, who died at the 
age of thirty-five. 
Born in New York and trained in architecture, Gordon Matta-Clark is most famous for his slicing through faÁades, walls and floors of derelict buildings. This 'deconstructing' gesture, provocative and extreme, turns architecture into astonishing sculptures, where the mass of the building is entwined with the light and air that penetrate it. Matta-Clark's interventions are always grounded in social or political convictions. Some of his projects include opening a restaurant (Food, 1971) 
in the then-neglected district of SoHo in New York, purchasing at auction fractions of unusable urban land 
in New York (Reality Properties: Fake Estates, 1973), dispensing oxygen to passersby in the streets of 
New York from a self-made cart (Fresh Air Cart, 1972), and other visionary urban projects that he conceived 
as a founding member of the New York-based Anarchitecture group. His practice remains one of the most unique, unequalled, and hugely influential of the past decades.

Gordon Matta-Clark

Arts & Photography

Thomas Crow

Diserens, Corinne

Kravagna, Christian

Kirshner, Judith Russi

Individual Artists

Phaidon Press

Transmodern: An art history of contact, 1920–60 (Rethinking Art's Histories)

History & Criticism

Manchester University Press

Avant-Garde and Liberation: Contemporary Art and Decolonial Modernism

Walther König, Köln

Emily Jacir is an artist who lives in between New York and Ramallah. It's no surprise that a central motif in her work is the theme of voluntary and coerced movement between places and cultures. The projects she has undertaken over the past five years have pungently, poignantly crossed the divides between art, life, politics and culture over and over again. In “Where We Come From,” Jacir, armed with an American passport, crossed borders in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip fulfilling everyday requests for fellow Palestinians unable to move so freely. In “Sexy Semite,” she placed ads in the Village Voice, a “Hot Palestinian Semite” seeking “Jewish soul mate” and the like. And in “Memorial to 418 Palestinian Villages which were Destroyed, Depopulated and Occupied by Israel in 1948,” Jacir installed a refugee tent in her studio in Lower Manhattan and invited friends and strangers to help her embroider the village names. Belongings is the first monograph published on her work.

Emily Jacir: Belongings: Works: 1998-2003

SAID, Edward

Menick, John

Фоліо

Transmoderne: Eine Kunstgeschichte des Kontakts

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

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