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"This revealing book looks at the groundbreaking work of Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978), whose socially conscious practice blurred the boundaries between contemporary art and architecture. After completing a degree in architecture at Cornell University, Matta-Clark returned to his home city of New York, where he initiated a series of site-specific works in derelict areas of the South Bronx. The borough's many abandoned buildings, the result of economic decline and middle-class flight, served as Matta-Clark's raw material. His series 'Bronx Floors' dissected these structures, performing an anatomical study of ther ravaged urban landscape. Moving from New York to Paris with 'Conical Interserct', a piece that became emblematic of artistic protest, Matta-Clark applied this same method to a pair of seventeenth-century row houses slatted for demolition as a result of the Centre Pompidou's construction. This compelling volume grounds Matta-Clark's practice against the framework of architectural and urban history, stressing his pioneering activist-inspired approach, as well as his contribution to the nascent fields of social practice and relational aesthetics."

Art and architecture --- Conceptual art --- Site-specific art --- Matta-Clark, Gordon, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Art and architecture. --- Conceptual art. --- Site-specific art. --- 1900-1999 --- United States. --- United States --- Matta-Clark, Gordon --- 72.078 --- 72.01 --- Exhibitions --- Art et architecture --- Art conceptuel --- Œuvres in situ --- History --- Exhibitions. --- Histoire --- Expositions --- Matta-Clark, G.