{"product_id":"vito-acconci-phaidon-contemporary-artists-series","title":"Vito Acconci (Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series)","description":"Vito Acconci (b.1940) is a key late twentieth-century pioneer of performance  video  installation and the exploration of architectural space. His work has expanded arts boundaries  moving beyond the gallery or museum into shared public spaces. Initially a poet  Acconci began making Conceptual art and Body art in the late 1960s. He devised actions  enacted them and documented them with texts  photographs or video. In 1972 he produced the most famous performance installation of its time  Seedbed. In an empty gallery he built a low ramp  concealed beneath which he stimulated himself with sexual fantasies about viewers walking above  speaking his fantasies into a microphone linked to loudspeakers. Startled spectators found themselves implicated in an intimate power relationship between artist and viewer. Since the mid 1980s his work has turned towards experimental architectural projects. In 1988 he set up the architectural practice Acconci Studio  which has executed public commissions around the world and was featured at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2001. Acconcis work remains of vital importance not only to Conceptual art and performance  but to contemporary architectural theory and practice.  In the Survey  art critic Frazer Ward chronicles the key moments in Acconcis thirty-year career  selecting emblematic works that illustrate the different media in which the artist has worked. In the interview the artist discusses with theorist Mark C. Taylor his concern for the human body as social  spatial and linguistic entity. In the Focus  architectural theorist Jennifer Bloomer analyzes one of the artists recent architectural works  World in Your Bones (1998). For his Artists Choice  the artist has selected Alain Robbe-Grillets screenplay for Alain Resnais film Last Year at Marienbad (1961). Noted also for his poetry and theoretical essays  the selection of Artists Writings spans his early experimental poetry from the late 1960s to a cultural analysis of public art and architecture in the 1980s and 1990s.","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44658945556533,"sku":"ByrdShop_0714840025","price":312.12,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/ByrdShop_0714840025_f736e273-ddc8-41b2-ad69-57924285dec8.jpg?v=1770727150","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/vito-acconci-phaidon-contemporary-artists-series","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}