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Walls paper / Gordon Matta-Clark.
Fine Arts Library - Cage (ask at desk) N7433.4.M43 W35 1973
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Matta-Clark, Gordon, 1943-1978, artist.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Space (Architecture)--Pictorial works.
- Space (Architecture).
- Artists' books--United States--Specimens.
- Artists' books.
- Photography, Artistic.
- Matta-Clark, Gordon, 1943-1978.
- Matta-Clark, Gordon.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Specimens.
- Pictorial works.
- Artists' books (books)
- Offset printing.
- Artists' books -- New York (State) -- 1973.
- Illustrated works.
- Physical Description:
- 144 unnumbered pages : all color illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Ithaca, N.Y.] : Buffalo Press, 1973.
- Summary:
- "This artist's book reproduces a selection of printed paper strips created for an installation, Walls Paper, at 112 Greene Street in 1972. Walls Paper was only presented once during Matta-Clark's lifetime. It consisted of photographs taken of partially demolished tenements in the Bronx and the Lower East Side which were cropped and the color manipulated, then printed on long strips of newsprint and hung from floor to ceiling." --Ursus Books & Gallery, New York.
- Notes:
- Title from verso of upper wrapper.
- All leaves are bifurcated horizontally.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Perkins Architectural Rare Book Fund.
- OCLC:
- 62777461
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