Eleanor Antin

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Eleanor Antin (born February 27, 1935 in New York City ) is an American artist who works in the fields of conceptual art , film art, photography and performance . It is counted among 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 Yiddish stages in Europe. In the mid-1950s Antin studied acting at Tamara Daykarhanova's private school in New York and creative writing at the City College of New York .

After completing her studies, Antin worked as a ballerina and actress and, after painting, turned to conceptual art and performance art. In 1968 she moved from New York to California .

Her particular interest in the semiotics of materials inspired her to create Consumer Portraits (1971–1971), a series of portraits of people composed of everyday consumer goods. A recurring theme in her work is dealing with questions of personal identity. The artist expresses her own personality in an allegory of the tripartite self (balleringa, king and nurse). In her performances, photo exhibitions, films, installations, drawings and texts, different aspects of this tripartite self come to the fore in turns.

Her work 100 Boots , which she carried out from 1971 to 1973, gained first major fame . In it, the eponymous 100 boots take a trip from the Pacific Ocean to New York at MoMA . On the way, the boots experience various adventures staged by Antin and recorded on postcards. She then sent it as Mail Art .

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

One of her best-known works is the performance Carving: A Traditional Sculpture from 1972, which she documented as a photo installation. Antin photographed her own naked body from the front, back and side every day for a month. By following a diet during this time, she looked so sculptural by removing material (carving) from her own body. At the same time, the work can be read as a criticism of the prevailing ideal of beauty of slimness.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 2014: Multiple Occupancy: Eleanor Antin's 'Selves' , Institute of Contemporary Art , Boston .
  • 2007: Eleanor Antin . Galerie Erna Hécey, 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)

  • 2020: I'm not a nice girl! Eleanor Antin, Lee Lozano , Adrian Piper , Mierle Laderman Ukeles , K21 in the Ständehaus , Düsseldorf
  • 2018–2019: Feminist Avant-garde / Art of the 1970s SAMMLUNG VERBUND Collection, Vienna , The Brno House of Arts, Brno, Czech Republic.
  • 2017–2018: Feminist avant-garde of the 1970s from the Verbund collection, Vienna . ZKM , Karlsruhe, DE.
  • 2007: documenta 12 , Kassel.
  • 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 . Art Association Hamburg .
  • 2006: Los Angeles 1955-1985 . Center Pompidou, Paris.
  • 2005: At the Mercy of Others: The Politics of Care . Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
  • 2004: How do we want to be governed? Miami Art Central, Miami.
  • 2002: Heart of Gold . PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York.
  • 2000: things we don't 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.

literature

  • Eleanor Antin: The Man Without a World - Screenplay. Green Integer, Los Angeles, 2002. ISBN 1-892-29581-4 . (Yevgeny Antinov, a creation by Antin, is given as co-author)
  • Eleanor Antin: 100 Boots . Running Press, Philadelphia (PA) 1999. ISBN 0-762-40457-4 .
  • Eleanor Antin: Ghosts: Artist and the Community . Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, 1996. ISBN 1-888-82601-0 .
  • Eleanor Antin: Eleanora Antinova plays . Sun & Moon Press, Los Angeles 1994. ISBN 1-557-13057-4 .
  • Eleanor Antin: Being Antinova . Astro Artz, Los Angeles 1983. ISBN 0-93712-211-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Grace Glueck: In a Roguish Gallery: One Aging Black Ballerina . In: New York Times, May 12, 1989. Available online (Retrieved April 20, 2008)
  2. ↑ a b Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution . The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. The MIT Press, Cambridge 2007. ISBN 0-914-35799-9 .
  3. ^ Therese Dann: Biographies of the Artists . In: Gabriele Schor (Ed.): Feminist Avantgarde. 1970s art. Verbund Collection, Vienna . Prestel, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-7913-5627-3 , pp. 491 .
  4. ^ Vicki Goldberg: ART / ARCHITECTURE; As a feminist, a king; as a ballerina, a Klutz . In: New York Times, August 8, 1999. Available online (Retrieved April 20, 2008)
  5. ↑ Faculty Homepage Eleanor Antin in the Department of Visual Arts at UCSD. Available online ( Memento of the original from May 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed April 20, 2008) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / visarts.ucsd.edu
  6. ^ Faculty Homepage David Antin in the Department of Visual Arts at UCSD. Available online ( Memento of the original from May 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed April 20, 2008) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / visarts.ucsd.edu
  7. ^ Announcement on the exhibition ( Memento of the original from April 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 2, 2014  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.icaboston.org
  8. ↑ Review of the exhibition by Aaron Schuster in: Frieze, No. 106, April 2007. Available online ( Memento of the original from May 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Retrieved April 18, 2008) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.frieze.com
  9. ^ Catalog: Eleanor Antin / Howard N. Fox . Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles 1999. ISBN 0-911-29127-X .
  10. ↑ January 8 - March 9, 1997
  11. ↑ September 10 - October 23, 1977.
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  14. ↑ [3]
  15. ^ Documenta 12, Kassel. June 16 - September 23, 2007. About the works by Eleanor Antin shown on the official documenta blog: Available online ( Memento of the original from December 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Retrieved April 18, 2008) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.documenta12blog.de
  16. ↑ WACK! - Art and the Feminist Revolution. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. March 4 - July 16, 2007. The exhibition was later shown at PS1. Available online ( memento of the original dated November 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Retrieved April 18, 2008) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.moca.org
  17. ↑ Santa Monica Museum of Art, May 19 - August 11, 2007. Available online ( Memento of the original from April 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Retrieved April 18, 2008) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.smmoa.org
  18. ^ The Getty, July 10 - October 7, 2007. Available online (Retrieved April 18, 2008)
  19. ↑ Kunstverein Hamburg, September 16 - November 12, 2006. Available online ( Memento of the original from August 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Retrieved April 18, 2008) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kunstverein.de
  20. ↑ March 8 - July 17, 2006 Catalog published by Center Pompidou, Paris 2006. ISBN 978-2-75570-150-0 .
  21. ↑ Whitney Museum, from May 18 to June 25, 2005. Available online ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Retrieved April 19, 2008) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.whitney.org
  22. ^ Miami Art Central. Curators: Roger Buergel and Ruth Noack. From November 29, 2004 to January 30, 2005. Catalog How Do We Want to Be Governed? Figure and Ground published by Miami Art Central, 2005.
  23. ↑ PS1: May 19 - September 2, 2002.
  24. ↑ Things We Don't Understand . Generali Foundation, Vienna, curated by Roger Buergel and Ruth Noack. From January 28 to April 16, 2000. Available online ( memento of the original from December 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ( Accessed on April 20, 2008.) Catalog published by Generali Foundation, Vienna 2000. ISBN 3-901107-26-6 . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / foundation.generali.at
  25. ↑ Whitney Museum of American Art, September 23 - January 23, 2000. The catalog was published in two parts; the second part (1950–2000) contains the work of Antin. Lisa Phillips: The American Century: Art and Culture, 1950-2000 . WW Norton & Company, 1999. ISBN 0-393-04815-2 .
  26. ↑ Altered Egos . The Santa Monica Museum of Art, curated by Karen Moss and Vernon Fisher. July 8 - September 4, 1994. Catalog: Altered Egos . Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica 1994. ISBN 0-962-49412-7 .
  27. ^ Catalog: Signs of the Times . San Francisco Museum, San Francisco 1985. ISBN 0-918-47101-X .
personal data
SURNAME Antin, Eleanor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City