Splitting.
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Title |
Splitting. |
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Creator |
Matta-Clark, Gordon (American sculptor, photographer, and filmmaker, 1943-1978) |
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Date |
1974 |
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Cultural Context |
American
North American |
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Subject |
Collages
Montages
Demolition
Privacy
Buildings
Houses
Sections |
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Description |
Black and white photo-collage; "This collage makes use of photographs of a project carried out by Matta Clark in Englewood, New Jersey, which involved him splitting apart a house that was due for demolition. Having divided the house in half by making two parallel cuts through it and removing the intervening section, Matta Clark then split it by removing part of the foundations on one side and tilting that half of the building backwards." (Caption, p.169); "A coda is provided by the work of the American Gordon Matta Clark (the son of the Chilean Surrealist Roberto Matta), who carried out quasi-Situationist incursions into the city's fabric up until his death in 1978, literally cutting into and piercing condemned buildings. This 'anarchitecture' involved him, on one occasion, in slicing a building in two halves, revealing, like an anatomist, the inner processes of one of the 'suburban and urban boxes' that he deemed responsible for 'insuring a passive, isolated consumer' addicted to privacy and private property." (Excerpt, p.169) |
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Material |
Photographs |
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Measurements |
101.6 x 76.2 cm |
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Technique |
Collage (technique)
Photography
Black-and-white photography
Photographic processes
Photographic techniques
Destruction
Demolition
Splitting |
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Work Type |
Photocollages (photographic compositions)
Collages
Montages
Photomontages |
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Source |
Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.168, fig.85) |
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Rights |
Photograph reproduced in Hopkins courtesy: Estate of Gordon Matta Clark/David Zwirner Gallery, New York. |
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Digital Publisher |
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center |
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Format |
image/jpeg |
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Digital File Name |
VRC 827-35.jpg |
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