Language to Cover a Page: The Early Writings of Vito Acconci

by Vito Acconci and Cleo Qian

Poems and other texts from the 1960s by a pioneering conceptual artist that show a continuity with his subsequent work in performance and video art.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262012243
• ISBN13: 9780262012249
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 411 Pages
• Weight: 2.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 8.7" x 11.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher