Trademarks
Vito Acconci, American, 1940 - 2017
negative 1970; print 2004
Black and white photo-montage; four individual panels
1/3
Image: 21 7/16 × 21 13/16 in. (54.5 × 55.4 cm)
Frame: 22 5/16 × 22 5/8 in. (56.7 × 57.5 cm)
Image: 51 × 21 13/16 in. (129.5 × 55.4 cm)
Frame: 51 13/16 × 22 5/8 in. (131.6 × 57.5 cm)
Overall: 27 11/16 × 32 13/16 in. (70.4 × 83.4 cm)
Frame: 28 5/8 × 33 3/4 in. (72.7 × 85.7 cm)
Image: 48 5/8 × 21 13/16 in. (123.5 × 55.4 cm)
Frame: 49 1/2 × 22 5/8 in. (125.7 × 57.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Virginia and Preston T. Kelsey 1958 Fund
© Vito Acconci
2005.16
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Photograph
Research Area
Photograph
Not on view
Inscriptions
Printed text, on panel 1, across top: TRADEMARKS - SEPT 10, 1970; across bottom: BITING MYSELF: BITING AS MUCH OF / MY BODY AS MY MOUTH CAN REACH. Printed text, on panel 4, across lower third of image: MAKING BITE-PRINTS, LIKE FINGER- / PRINTS & STAMPING THE WORLD / AROUND ME.
Course History
FILM 48, SART 17, The Map, Mary Flanagan, Summer 2012
FREN 7, French Graphic Novels, Annabelle Cone, Spring 2013
ENVS 80, Writing Our Way Home: The Writing That Sustains Us, Terry Tempest Williams, Spring 2013
FILM 48, SART 17, The Map, Mary Flanagan, Summer 2013
WRIT 5, Poor Taste, William Boyer, Winter 2014
WRIT 5, On Poor Taste, William Boyer, Winter 2015
ENGL 7.47, Tales of the Avant-Garde, Andrew McCann, Winter 2019
ENGL 7.47, Tales of the Avant Garde, Andrew McCann, Winter 2020
ENGL 7.47, Tales of the Avant-Garde, Andrew McCann, Winter 2022
Exhibition History
Realm of the Senses, James Cohan Gallery, New York, New York, checklist number 14, December 11, 2004-January 22, 2005.
Word and Image in Contemporary Art, Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 26-August 4, 2013.
Publication History
Brian P. Kennedy and Emily Shubert Burke, Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2009, p.144, no.117.
Provenance
James Cohan Gallery, New York, New York; sold to present collection, 2005.
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