Product Description: Between 1969 and 1973, Vito Acconci's creative output was focused on body pieces and performances, many of them seminal works now firmly lodged in the art historical canon of the time. Whether he was transforming space by masturbating under a platform extension of the gallery floor or transforming the body by tucking his genitals between his legs, Acconci promoted a radical, corporeal method of working with the human presence that has remained relevant in these less performative times...read more

Product Description: From Dada to Fluxus through Sensation to today, humor is at the heart of much of the most-beloved--and least comfortable--art out there. Humor's ambivalence, its ability to shift between the utopian and the destructive, and its refusal of absolute values, distinguish many of those twentieth century movements that continue to exert an influence...read more

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Product Description: Venturi, Robert, Turrell, James (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Examines the varied and provocative works of the influential artist, including his 1970s performance pieces and his lighthearted and sculpturally complex pieces of the 1980s