id:			318583
accession number:	2018.294
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.294
updated:		2023-04-26 11:23:59.321000

100 Boots, 1971–73. Eleanor Antin (American, b.1935). Set of 51 postcards; photomechanical reproductions (relief half tones) of black and white photographs; 11.4 x 17.8 cm (4 1/2 x 7 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dorothea Wright Hamilton Fund 2018.294 © Eleanor Antin

title:				100 Boots
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creation date:			1971–73
creation date earliest:		1965
creation date latest:		1978
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creditline:			Dorothea Wright Hamilton Fund
copyright:			© Eleanor Antin

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culture:	America
technique:	Set of 51 postcards; photomechanical reproductions (relief half tones) of black and white photographs
department:	Contemporary Art
collection:	CONTEMP - Installation Media
type:		Mixed Media
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CREATORS

* Eleanor Antin (American, b.1935)  - artist
American performance artist, conceptual artist, and photographer, born 1935
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measurements: 11.4 x 17.8 cm (4 1/2 x 7 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Eleanor Antin
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	(Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)
	date: 2018
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2018–
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fun fact:
The postmarks, along with the inevitable signs of wear and tear on the individual postcards, are the visual records of the work's circulation through the global postal system.

digital description:
<em>100 Boots</em> consists of fifty-one photographic postcards that the artist mailed to recipients around 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.

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	“Reading Ruscha.” <em>Art in America</em> 61, no. 6 (November – December 1973)
	page number: 	P. 64-71
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	Delahoyd, Mary, and Jacki Apple. Alternatives in Retrospect: An Historical Overview 1969-1975. New York: The New Museum, 1981.
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	Antin, Eleanor. 100 Boots. Philadelphia, Pa: Running, 1999.
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	Fox, Howard N., Eleanor Antin, and Lisa E. Bloom. Eleanor Antin. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1999.
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	Godfrey, Mark. “Image Structures.” <em>Artforum</em> 43, no. 6 (February 2005)
	page number: 	P. 146-153
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	Lewallen, Constance, Karen Moss, Julia Bryan-Wilson, and Anne Rorimer. State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011.
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	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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