Documents from Gordon Matta-Clark's Personal Library traces photographer Stefano Graziani's encounter with seventy books from Matta-Clark's collection held at the CCA, spanning architecture, alchemy, philosophy, and cultural theory — a portrait of a mind assembled from its reading.
About This Book
When Stefano Graziani moved through the Canadian Centre for Architecture's collection, he found something unexpected: the personal library of Gordon Matta-Clark, intact and catalogued. Seventy publications survive, ranging across art history, communications, literature, psychology, and alchemy — a cross-disciplinary breadth that mirrors the restless intelligence behind Matta-Clark's practice. This slim CCA Single documents that encounter, using the library as both subject and evidence. For researchers and practitioners drawn to the relationship between artistic process and intellectual formation, it is a rare, intimate object — part archival record, part meditation on how artists read and what they keep.
Key Features
- 32 pages documenting Graziani's encounter with the CCA Collection
- Part of the CCA Singles series — short printed one-offs presenting one voice, one object, or one event
- Published by Canadian Centre for Architecture
What You'll Discover
- The scope of Gordon Matta-Clark's reading across architecture, art history, alchemy, cultural studies, literature, philosophy, and psychology
- How a personal library functions as an index of creative and intellectual process
- Graziani's approach to the CCA Collection as a site of photographic and archival encounter
- The CCA Singles format as a publishing model — raw, intimate, and resistant to the conventions of the architecture monograph
About the Author
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Specifications
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 32
- Dimensions: 20 x 30 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9781927071748
- Publisher: Canadian Centre for Architecture
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects, artists, and researchers with an interest in Gordon Matta-Clark, archival practice, or the relationship between reading and creative work.