Eleanor Antin

Eleanor Antin ( born February 27, 1935 in New York City ) is an American artist, concept art, folk art, photography and performance works in the fields. You will be counted on feminist art.

Life and work

Eleanor Antin comes from a Jewish immigrant family, and grew up in the Bronx. Her parents came from Poland or Russia; and her mother had appeared as an actress on the Yiddish theaters in Europe. Mid-1950s Antin studied acting at the private school of Tamara Daykarhanova in New York and Creative Writing at the City College of New York.

After her studies, Antin worked as a ballerina and actress and turned to the study of painting conceptual art and performance art to. In 1968 she moved from New York to California. First major became famous for their work 100 Boots, which she carried out from 1971 to 1973. It take the eponymous 100 boots a journey from the Pacific Ocean to New York to the MoMA. On the way to experience the boots different adventures that were staged by Antin and held on postcards. This they then sent as a mail Article

Since 1975, Antin taught as a professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD ), where she is now professor emeritus. Antin lives in San Diego, and is married to the literary critic and poet David Antin, who is also professor emeritus at UCSD.

Her most famous works include the performance Carving: A Traditional Sculpture from 1972, which was documented by her as photo installation. Antin photographed daily for a month her ​​own naked body from the front, from behind and from the side. By it followed a diet during this time, she worked as a sculptor by removal of material (carving ) on your own body. At the same time, the work can be read as a critique of the prevailing beauty ideal of thinness.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection )

  • 2007: Eleanor Antin. Hecey Gallery, Brussels.
  • 1999: Eleanor Antin - retrospective. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles.
  • 1997: Eleanor Antin: Selections from the Angel of Mercy. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
  • 1979: 100 BOOTS: Transmission and Reception. Franklin Furnace, New York.
  • 1978: The ballerina. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
  • 1977: The Angel of Mercy. La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla CA.
  • 1973: 100 BOOTS. Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Participation in group exhibitions (selection)

  • 2007: Documenta 12, Kassel, Germany.
  • 2007: WACK! - Art and the Feminist Revolution. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
  • 2007: Identity Theft: Eleanor Antin, Lynn Hershman, and Suzy Lake, 1972-78. Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA.
  • 2007: The Evidence of Movement. The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA.
  • 2006: spirals of memory. Kunstverein Hamburg.
  • 2006: Los Angeles 1955-1985. Centre Pompidou, Paris.
  • 2004: How do we want to be governed? Miami Art Central, Miami.
  • 2002: Heart of Gold. P. S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York.
  • 2000: the things we do not understand. Generali Foundation, Vienna.
  • 1999: The American Century: Art and Culture, 1900-2000. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
  • 1994: Altered Egos. The Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica CA.
  • 1985: Signs of the Times, Some Recurring Motifs in Twentieth Century Photography. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco.
  • 1976: Battle of the Bluffs. Venice Biennale.
  • 1974: Flash Art Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne.
  • 1969: Language 3 Dwan Gallery, New York.
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