Gordon Matta-Clark's Conical Intersect: Sculpture, Space, and the Cultural Value of Urban Imagery

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Peter Muir

Gordon Matta-Clark's Conical Intersect

Sculpture, Space, and the Cultural Value of Urban Imagery

Peter Muir

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Routledge
28 April 2014

Art & design styles: from c 1960; Installation art; Individual artists, art monographs

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. Conical Intersect is a multi-media artwork, which involves the intersections of architecture, sculpture, film, and photography, as well as being a three-dimensional model that reflects aspects of urban, art, and architectural theory, along with a number of cultural and historiographic discourses which are still present and active. This book navigates these many complex narratives by using the central ’hole’ of Conical Intersect as its focal point: this apparently vacuous circle around which the events, documents, and other historical or theoretical references surrounding Matta-Clark’s project, are perpetually in circulation. Thus, Conical Intersect is imagined as an insatiable absence around which discourses continually form, dissipate and resolve. 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.

By: Peter Muir
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 498g
ISBN: 9781472411730
ISBN 10: 1472411730
Pages: 198
Publication Date: 28 April 2014
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Contents: 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.

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.