Eleanor Antin
1935–
Introduction
Eleanor Antin (née Fineman; February 27, 1935) is an American performance artist, film-maker, installation artist, conceptual artist, feminist artist, and university professor.
Wikidata identifier
Q1325708
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Introduction
Considered a key figure in conceptual, feminist, and performance art practice. She attended Music and Art High School in the Bronx, New School for Social Research, and City College of New York, where she met the poet David Antin, whom she married in 1961. She began as a painter and asssemblage artist, but soon turned to conceptual works, often involving photography and performance. Her work has been exhibited at the Hirshhorn Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Kunsthalle Wien, and documenta 12, and 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.
Country of birth
United States
Roles
Artist, actor, author, conceptual artist, performance artist, photographer, sculptor, video artist
ULAN identifier
500061710
Names
Eleanor Antin, Yevgeny Antinov, Eleanora Antinova, Eleanor Fineman
Information from the Getty Research Institute's Union List of Artist Names ® (ULAN), made available under the ODC Attribution License. Accessed February 28, 2024.
67 works
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Recollections of My Life with Diaghilev
2009 -
The Gentleman's Game is the Ladies Gain
1977 -
The Problem of the Drainage
1977 -
"The Quality of Mercy is not Strained...."
1977 -
The New Arrival
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What's on the End of the Line?
1977 -
Stopping on the Bridge to catch a Fish
1977 -
What has she lost?
1977 -
Blind Man's Buff
1977 -
"A charming passage"
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Uninvited Guests
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The gentle Muse
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Secrets
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The Long Adieu
1977 -
Reverie
1977 -
Country Airs
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"They also Serve..."
1977 -
"Not too high, Sir - "
1977 -
The Troth
1977 -
Chance Encounter
1977 -
Tree Sprite
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Broken Vows
1977 -
The Sick Child
1977 -
Myself - 1853
1977 -
Myself - 1854
1977 -
Myself - 1855
1977 -
The Angel of Mercy
1977 -
Learning to Walk
1977 -
The Wounded Sergeant
1977 -
"Who gave the order to charge, General?"
1977
67 works