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100 Boots

1971–73

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Eleanor Antin

(American, b.1935)

America

Postcard; photomechanical reproduction (relief half tone) of black and white photograph

11.4 x 17.8 cm (4 1/2 x 7 in.)

Dorothea Wright Hamilton Fund 2018.294.17

Location

not on view

Description

The world during a two-and-a-half-year period. Modeled on the literary form of the “picaresque” (an episodic, often disjointed story that follows the exploits of its protagonist), the postcards document the adventures of one hundred empty boots as they march from the beach in San Diego to streets of New York.

Eleanor Antin

American performance artist, conceptual artist, and photographer, born 1935
Provenance
Eleanor Antin
Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, NY
December 3, 2018
the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
Antin, Eleanor. 100 Boots. Philadelphia, Pa: Running, 1999. p. 64-71
“Reading Ruscha.” Art in America 61, no. 6 (November – December 1973) p. 64-71
Delahoyd, Mary, and Jacki Apple. Alternatives in Retrospect: An Historical Overview 1969-1975. New York: The New Museum, 1981.
Fox, Howard N., Eleanor Antin, and Lisa E. Bloom. Eleanor Antin. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1999.
Godfrey, Mark. “Image Structures.” Artforum 43, no. 6 (February 2005) p. 146-153
Lewallen, Constance, Karen Moss, Julia Bryan-Wilson, and Anne Rorimer. State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011.
Antin, Eleanor, Huey Copeland, Malik Gaines, Alexandro Segade, Henry M. Sayre, and Emily Liebert. Multiple Occupancy: Eleanor Antin's "Selves". New York: Wallach Art Gallery, 2013.
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