Pioneering conceptual artist Vito Acconci began his career as a poet. In the 1960s, before beginning his work in performance and video art, Acconci studied at the Iowa Writers Workshop and published poems in journals and chapbooks. Almost all of this work remains unknown; much of it appeared in the [...]

Vito Acconci has been a vital presence in contemporary art since the late 1960s; his confrontational and ultimately political works have taken on many forms, from writing to conceptual art, bodyworks, performance, film, video, multimedia installation and architectural sculpture. This is a comprehens[...]