{"product_id":"gordon-mattaclark-physical-poetics-9780520299092","title":"Gordon MattaClark  Physical Poetics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Examining the titles of Matta-Clark’s works, as well as private notebooks, aphoristic notecards, letters and loquacious statements he made to various interviewers, Richard—herself a poet—maps with obsessive precision the ways in which the artist’s language use frames and enlarges his artworks, many of which exist now only in the form of documentation. . . . Richard’s nimble exegesis of her subject \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e his language sets the stage for conjuring a vision of Matta-Clark working in the landscape.\"  * Chicago Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\"Richard conscientiously treats Matta-Clark's written word as another facet of his artistic production, which serves to contextualize and deepen an understanding of his short-lived career. Presenting these musings, complete with words crossed-out, spelling errors, arrows, and marginal notations from books, provides a conduit to Matta-Clark's archive and displays his playful use of language. This book is remarkable in its ability to systematically weave Matta-Clark's thought process with his artwork in a way that remains directly connected to the archives while still reading narratively. It would be an excellent resource for anyone interested in Matta-Clark and his milieu in the 1970s Soho art scene.\" * ARLIS\/NA Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e\"Richard's compelling and crystalline prose make it quite the page-turner. Reading it under lockdown during a pandemic has been a particularly thought-provoking experience. \u003ci\u003ePhysical Poetics\u003c\/i\u003e exemplifies the kind of rigorous work that is difficult to achieve, so thorough is its analysis of the archival and the material evidence. It reads at once like a biography, an essay and an inventory; it is a Matta-Clark concordance, but much more thrilling than that sounds.\" * Burlington Magazine *\u003cbr\u003e\"Richard authors an extensively researched and dense text that examines the archives of the artist, focussing predominantly\u003cbr\u003e on his prosaic texts and irreverent semantic aphorisms recorded on notecards. For any fan or interest in the artist, the book serves as part-analysis of the archive, with a nuanced insight into New York’s emerging contemporary art scene of the late 1960’s and early 70’s. However, the volume also works as semi-biographical, charting Matta-Clark’s tumultuous parentage and maturation, in a parallel to his works, interests, and backdrop of famous connections past, present, and future.\" * Visual Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction. CONFUSION GUIDED BY A CLEAR SENSE OF PURPOSE; \u003ci\u003eor, a comet, which would have its tail in front\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART ONE. TOTAL (SEMIOTIC) SYSTEM: READING GORDON MATTA-CLARK\u003cbr\u003e “Total (Semiotic) System”\u003cbr\u003e Walking and Reading\u003cbr\u003e WORKING AT SEVERAL DIMENTIONS\u003cbr\u003e “A step taken in the fog”\u003cbr\u003e “Kool Killer, or the Insurrection of Signs”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART TWO. ANARCHITECTURE AS POETIC DEVICE: GORDON MATTA-CLARK AND THE SOHO CONVERSATION\u003cbr\u003e Anarchitecture as Poetic Device\u003cbr\u003e “The Poetics of Psycho-Locus”\u003cbr\u003e AVAILABLE\u003cbr\u003e “Metaphoric Void”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eArche\u003c\/i\u003e and the Alpha Privative\u003cbr\u003e \"Ambiguity Is All”\u003cbr\u003e Art World Prince\u003cbr\u003e BEST LATED WISHES\u003cbr\u003e Of Trees, Burial, Cooking, and Cannibalism\u003cbr\u003e “Another name more or less the same”\u003cbr\u003e Venn Diagram\u003cbr\u003e To THE MEETING and THE MOB (AGAIN)\u003cbr\u003e MAKING NOT SOLVING PROBLEMS\u003cbr\u003e The Irrational Village and the Non-u-ment\u003cbr\u003e Un-monumentalizing Conversation\u003cbr\u003e Monument, Non-u-ment, and Site\/Non-site\u003cbr\u003e Smithson Coda: The Islands\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eQuadrille, Walls paper\u003c\/i\u003e, et al.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFake Estates\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e LAYERED REALITY, Thin Edge, and Space Between\u003cbr\u003e “Been Gone”: Notes on the Index\u003cbr\u003e Cut\/Draw\/Write\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eImmune versus Cancer Cells\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART THREE. A SILENT FORCE: THE LEGACIES OF MATTA AND DUCHAMP\u003cbr\u003e DEMENTIONS\u003cbr\u003e “A Silent Force”\u003cbr\u003e Matta and Pajarito: “Psychological Morphology” and \u003ci\u003eRéalité parallèle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Noguchi\u003cbr\u003e “Jestures”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eÉtant . . .\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Anartist and Anarchitecture\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eInframince\u003c\/i\u003e and Thin Edge\u003cbr\u003e Bullet Holes\u003cbr\u003e Phenomena of Infra-\u003cbr\u003e Readymade and Ready-to-be-unmade\u003cbr\u003e The Alchemical Pun\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART FOUR. SPACISM: GORDON MATTA-CLARK AND THE POLITICAL\u003cbr\u003e “We chose to build a world of our own”\u003cbr\u003e “My understanding of art . . .” and THE JOY OF GETTING AWAY WITH IT SPACISM\u003cbr\u003e “I woundered who it is for . . .”\u003cbr\u003e Chile and the Bienal de São Paulo\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWindow Blow-Out\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eArc de Triomphe for Workers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Resource Center and Environmental Youth Program for Loisaida\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e THE VOYEURIST'S SPACE\u003cbr\u003e Violent Space, SECURITY MEASURES, and THE SIGN POST ANARCHIE\u003cbr\u003e The Money Photographs\u003cbr\u003e Cornell ’69\u003cbr\u003e “Gordon Matta-Clark and Individualism”\u003cbr\u003e “A fine-tuned language and logic of the body”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. “WITHIN ABSURDITY THERE IS A FANTASTIC FREEDOM”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e List of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402906935639,"sku":"9780520299092","price":34.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520299092.jpg?v=1730481818","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/gordon-mattaclark-physical-poetics-9780520299092","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}