Documentation of the Performance "Command Performance"
Vito Acconci, American, 1940 - 2017
Performance date: January 19, 1974
Photographs and white crayon on paper
Overall: 20 1/16 × 20 1/8 in. (50.9 × 51.1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Monroe A. Denton, Jr., Class of 1968, in honor of Richard Blum, Class of 1953, and Harriet Warm
2006.100.1
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Photograph
Research Area
Mixed Media
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and inscribed, in white chalk, lower right, superimposed over text: COMMAND PERFORMANCE [underlined] / Vito Acconci
Course History
FILM 48, SART 17, New Media Theory & Practice, Mary Flanagan, Winter 2012
Exhibition History
A Space for Dialogue 48, Discomfort Zone, Fluxus and Performance Art from the 1960's and 1970's, Kimia Shahi, Class of 2009, Levinson Public Relations Intern, Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 4-March 1, 2009.
Celebrating Twenty Years: Gifts in Honor of the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 11-December 12, 2005.
Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 26,2009-March 15, 2010.
Publication History
Katherine W. Hart et al., Celebrating Twenty Years: Gifts in Honor of the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2005, pp. 66, ill. p. 67, cat. no. 28.
Provenance
Monroe A. Denton, Jr., Brooklyn, New York; given to present collection, 2006.
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