Odd Lots: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark's Fake Estates

by Matthew Higgs

In the summer of 1973, artist Gordon Matta-Clark discovered that the city of New York occasionally auctioned improbably tiny and frequently inaccessible parcels of land created by zoning eccentricities. Fascinated by these spaces, he bought 15 of them (14 in Queens, and one in Staten Island) for between $25 and $75 each, photographed them and collated the photographs with the appropriate deeds and maps. He called the project Fake Estates. Odd Lots:...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1932698264
• ISBN13: 9781932698268
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Cabinet
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 9.0" x 10.6"