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 dra...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Oakland, California
University of California Press
2019
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "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"...Provided by publisher |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | 525 Seiten, 24 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9780520299092 978-0-520299-09-2 |