id:			349447
accession number:	2018.294.20
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.294.20
updated:		2023-03-22 03:05:25.721000

100 Boots, 1971–73. Eleanor Antin (American, b.1935). Postcard; photomechanical reproduction (relief half tone) of black and white photograph; 11.4 x 17.8 cm (4 1/2 x 7 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dorothea Wright Hamilton Fund 2018.294.20

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
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culture:	America
technique:	postcard; photomechanical reproduction (relief half tone) of black and white photograph
department:	Contemporary Art
collection:	Decorative Arts
type:		Photograph
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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
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	the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: December 3, 2018
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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

	Antin, Eleanor. 100 Boots. Philadelphia, Pa: Running, 1999.
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	“Reading Ruscha.” <em>Art in America</em> 61, no. 6 (November – December 1973)
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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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	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)
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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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