WALLS PAPER.

MATTA-CLARK, Gordon. Walls Paper. Unpaginated booklet with reproductions of wall papers from a tenement under demolition. All pages are cut in half horizontally, some color. 2 pamphlets bound vertically in stapled folio, 257 x 206 mm., wrappers, in a new cloth slipcase. N.p.: Buffallo (sic) Press, 1973.

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.