Eleanor Antin

Eleanor Antin (born 1935 in New York City, New York) is a performance artist, film-maker and installation artist. For more than three decades, Antin has been a notable presence on the American art scene. A native of New York, she eventually made her home in Southern California. She has been granted dozens of solo exhibitions, as well as represented in countless group exhibitions. Sometimes compared to contemporaries such as Carolee Schneemann and Judy Chicago, Antin's work is largely concerned with issues of identity and the role of women in society.

[http://www.hotboots.com/images/treeboot.jpg100 Boots] is Antin's best-known conceptual work, consisting of 51 postcards that were mailed to hundreds of recipients around the world from 1971-1973. It documents the boots in a mock picaresque photo diary, beginning at the Pacific Ocean and ending in New York City, where their journey was presented in an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art. In a famous performance work of 1972, [http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/awlee/arth245/images/imageset11/antincarving.jpgCarving: A Traditional Sculpture] , Antin photographed her naked body at successive stages during a month of crash-dieting. In [http://www.anoressiabulimia.org/images/ia01.jpgThe Eight Temptations] , 1972, Antin poses in mock histrionic gestures, resisting the temptation to eat snack foods that would violate her diet. More recently, Antin has completed two large scale photographic series inspired by Roman history and mythology: The Last Days of Pompeii, 2002, and Roman Allegories, 2005. Her work was profiled in Season Two of the PBS series .

Antin serves as Professor Emeritus in the Visual Arts Department at the University of California, San Diego, where she has taught since 1975. She resides in San Diego with her husband, the poet and critic David Antin. Her art work is represented by the Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Gallery in New York City.

External links

* [http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/antin/ Biography, interviews, essays, artwork images and video clips] from PBS series "" - Season 2 (2003).
* [http://www.feldmangallery.com/ Ronald Feldman Fine Arts]
* [http://visarts.ucsd.edu/node/view/491/21 UCSD Visual Arts Dept. Biography]