Peter Muir

Gordon Matta-Clark's Conical Intersect

Sculpture, Space, and the Cultural Value of Urban Imagery

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this in-depth analysis, Peter Muir argues that Gordon Matta-Clark's Conical Intersect (1975) is emblematic of Henri Lefebvre's understanding of art's function in relation to urban space. By engaging with Lefebvre's theory in conjunction with the perspectives of other writers, such as Michel de Certeau, Jacques Derrida, and George Bataille, the book elicits a story that presents the artwork's significance, origins and legacies. Muir argues that Conical Intersect is much more than an 'artistic hole.' Due to its location at Plateau Beaubourg in Paris, it is simultaneously an object of art and an instrument of social critique.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 313g
• ISBN-13: 9781138269811
• ISBN-10: 1138269816
• Artikelnr.: 57057670

Autorenporträt

Dr. Peter Muir is a Research Associate with MIRIAD (the Manchester Institute for Research and Innovation in Art and Design) and an Associate Lecturer with the Open University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Materialising space and the search for origins: the cultural and spatial significance of the Les Halles district of Paris
Articulating the void: the dematerialisation and re-materialisation of Conical Intersect
The art of self-effacement: interpreting Matta-Clark's cuts
Waste value and the formless other
Conical Intersect as counter-monument (the 'non-U-ment')
On the closing and opening of other spaces
Of blindness and mediation
Appendix
Bibliography
Index.