Vito Acconci

Vito Acconci was an American artist whose practice moved from poetry and body-based performance in the late 1960s and 1970s toward installation, architecture, and public space. His early performances — confrontational, durational, and often involving the body as site — were central to the development of performance and conceptual art in New York.

Publications collected here document Acconci's practice and its reception, including catalogues, artist publications, and printed matter through which his work entered institutional and private circulation.

  • Original 1979 AA Bronson and Peggy Gale, eds., Performance by Artists, Art Metropole, Toronto. Softcover with white ground and bold black title typography, 'Performance by Artists' in large sans-serif type, editors' names below, Art Metropole imprint at foot. Interior page from 1979 Performance by Artists, Art Metropole. Black-and-white photograph of Ulay and Marina Abramovic in a durational performance, two nude figures facing each other with a clothed photographer between them in a narrow doorway.

    AA Bronson & Peggy Gale, eds. — Performance by Artists

    AA Bronson & Peggy Gale, eds. — Performance by Artists