Language to Cover A Page: The Early Writings of Vito Acconci.LANGUAGE TO COVER A PAGE: THE EARLY WRITINGS OF VITO ACCONCI Vito Hannibal Acconci (born January 24, 1940) is a Bronx, New York-born, Brooklyn-based architect, landscape architect, and installation artist. His father was an Italian immigrant who took him to museums and opera houses and gave him his first arts education. edited by Craig Dworkin. MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press/411 pp./$34.95 (hb). Best known for his video and performanceart, Vito VITO Vlaamse Instelling Voor Technologisch Onderzoek (Flemish Institute for Technological Research) VITO Very Important Top Officer VITO Vertically Integrated Tour Operators Acconci's experimental arrangements of text from the late 1960s and 1970s are published, many for the first time, in Craig Dworkin's Language to Cover a Page. In the semblance of other nouveau roman nouveau roman or new novel: see French literature; Robbe-Grillet, Alain. writers, Acconci's writings are consistently unorthodox. He shuffles ordinary language, toying with syntactic repetition and grammar while paring down the text to give equal, or perhaps greater, importance to what is not said or seen. The text could easily fit in a book half its size, if in accord with conventional, economical ideas of layout; but this would be doubly elusive, for in Acconci's work, space serves as punctuation. Dworkin's assemblage of Acconci's experiments is provocative in content and exquisitely packaged. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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