Peter Muir: ‘Gordon Matta-Clark’s Conical Intersect: Luxury will be King’

Peter Muir: ‘Gordon Matta-Clark’s Conical Intersect: Luxury will be King’

I’m very pleased to announce that an article ‘Gordon Matta-Clark’s Conical Intersect: Luxury will be King’ will be published by The Journal For Cultural Research in July 2011.

JOURNAL FOR CULTURAL RESEARCH VOLUME 15 NUMBER 3 (JULY 2011)

ISSN 1479–7585 © 2011 Taylor & Francis

http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14797585.asp

This essay argues that Gordon Matta-Clark’s Conical Intersect (1975) exemplifies Lefebvre’s understanding of art’s function in relation to urban space. Yet the aim is not to fix a retrospective meaning onto Conical Intersect. Instead, by mapping conceptual processes and reception history, the essay uses Lefebvre’s theory to interrogate the range of interpretive opportunities provided by this arresting yet temporally specific artwork. Such an approach allows the writing to be alive to the convergence of historical and cultural meanings and tensions that are at the heart of both the essay and Conical Intersect.

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