Peter Muir: ‘Gordon Matta-Clark’s Conical Intersect: Luxury will be King’
Gordon Matta-Clark’s Conical Intersect: “Luxury will be King” JOURNAL FOR CULTURAL RESEARCH VOLUME 15 NUMBER 3 (JULY 2011), pp. 173-192.
N 1479–7585 © 2011 Taylor & Francis
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.
Footage of the artwork can be found at the following sites:
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