{"title":"Vito Acconci","description":"\u003cp\u003eVito 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublications 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"bronson-gale-performance-by-artists-art-metropole-1979","title":"AA Bronson \u0026 Peggy Gale, eds. — Performance by Artists","description":"\u003cp\u003eImportant Art Metropole anthology edited by AA Bronson and Peggy Gale, gathering artist documentation, texts, and commentary around performance art in the 1970s. Includes material on Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Joseph Beuys, Daniel Buren, COUM Transmissions, General Idea, Ulrike Rosenbach, Ulay\/Marina Abramovic, and others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished from the artist-run context of Art Metropole, the book sits between catalogue, archive, reader, and distribution object. Performance appears here as record: image, text, index, bibliography, and residue. A substantial document from a period when artist publications helped carry ephemeral practices into circulation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCommentaries include texts by RoseLee Goldberg, Dick Higgins, Bruce Barber, and AA Bronson, alongside a substantial bibliography of periodical articles, special issues, books, and catalogues. The contents page alone functions as a partial map of performance art's institutional passage through the 1970s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Softcover anthology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 20 × 26 cm\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 319\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePrint:\u003c\/strong\u003e Offset-printed text and black-and-white illustrations\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Art Metropole, Toronto, 1979\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdited by:\u003c\/strong\u003e AA Bronson and Peggy Gale\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Good. Slight wear to edges, visible rubbing and handling to cover, interior pages clean and readable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShipping and handling included in listed price.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art Metropole","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53615237202258,"sku":"BRONSON-ARTMET-CAT-1979","price":180.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Bronson-_-AA-and-Gale_-Peggy-Performance-by-Artists--cover.jpg?v=1780293477"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/vito-acconci.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}