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About Eleanor Piroschker Antin
Eleanor Antin (born Fineman, February 27, 1935) is an American performance artist, film-maker, installation artist, conceptual artist and feminist artist.
When she began her artistic career in New York, Antin started off as a painter and later turned to making assemblages, but starting in the 1960s she began to do the conceptual projects that would become her focus. The first was "Blood of a Poet Box" (1965-1968), in which she took blood samples from poets and put them on slides. The work, which was inspired by Jean Cocteau's film "Blood of a Poet," eventually held 100 samples, including blood from Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and is in the collection of the Tate Modern.
100 Boots is Antin's best-known conceptual work. In this project, she set up 100 boots in various configurations and settings, photographed them, and created 51 postcards of the images that were mailed to hundreds of recipients around the world from 1971 to 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 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. In a famous performance work of 1972, Carving: A Traditional Sculpture, Antin photographed her naked body at 148 successive stages during a month of crash-dieting. In The Eight Temptations, 1972, Antin poses in mock histrionic gestures, resisting the temptation to eat snack foods that would violate her diet. In the 1970s and 80s, she created several videos in which she played invented personae, including an Elizabethan-style king, a Romantic-era ballerina, a contemporary black movie star called Eleanora Antinova, and Eleanor Nightingale, a character that is a combination of Florence Nightingale and the artist herself.
More recently, Antin 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 Art:21.
She has had dozens of solo exhibitions and has been represented in countless group exhibitions, including at the Hirshhorn Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Kunsthalle Wien, and documenta 12 in Kassel. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Jewish Museum, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others. Antin's work is largely concerned with issues of identity and the role of women in society. "I was determined to present women without pathos or helplessness," she wrote in a feminist artist statement for the Brooklyn Museum.
No idea of accuracy, but believe Jim has done a pretty good job, and those interested can contact him using contact info at start of book. "Sol" Fineman, Jeanette, Eleanor, and Marcia appear in top half of page numbered 139 - top of page titled/labelled "Vol. I, Chapter 19 - All Descendants of Gdalie Effron, son of Motte Tsinne's" http://www.efronfamilyhistory.com/Index_and_Charts.pdf
Also see http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/antin-eleanor (only link worked when uploaded as Document, no snap, so just putting in About instead.
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Eleanor Piroschker Antin's Timeline
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February 27, 1935
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The Bronx, Bronx County, New York, United States
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