COLLECTION NAME:
Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Image Record ID:
aahi0004619
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Work Title (display):
Blood of the Poet Box
Image Title:
general view
Work Dates (display):
1965-68
Work Dates type:
creation
Work Creator (display):
Eleanor Antin (American, born 1935)
Work Creator gender:
female
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female
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Work Creator notes (display):
American performance artist. In the mid-1950s she studied acting at the Tamara Daykarhanova School for Stage, New York, and creative writing at the College of the City of New York. Her performances can be seen as autobiographical, with invented roles based partly on historical characters. Set-pieces recurring in performances from the early 1970s included the King of Solana Beach, inspired by a portrait of Charles I, King of England, by Anthony van Dyck; Eleanor Antinova, giving the recollections of a black dancer in Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes; and the Angel of Mercy, Florence Nightingale in the Crimea. Antin considered her performances as a means of self-definition as an artist and woman in the late 20th century. The presentations incorporated pithy commentaries on contemporary social and political issues. The spontaneous nature of her activity can be linked to the early years of American film-making, when participants devised dramatic scenarios in an ad hoc sequence. By interspersing her personal experience and vision with episodes from the past, Antin attempted to redefine traditional boundaries associated with women, power and art. From 1979 she was Professor of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego. ("Antin, Eleanor." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. 13 Jan. 2009 .)
Work Creator UCB affiliation notes (display):
visiting artist twice: once with David Antin in 1994, other in 2006
Work Creator UCB affiliation (display):
visiting artist, Visiting Artist Program, 1994 and 2006
Work Style Period:
20th century
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20th century
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Work Style Period:
Contemporary
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Contemporary
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Work Subject:
microscopes (optical instruments)
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microscopes (optical instruments)
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false
Work Subject:
blood (animal material)
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blood (animal material)
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Work Worktype:
sculpture (visual works)
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sculpture (visual works)
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Work Worktype:
installations (visual works)
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installations (visual works)
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Work Category (VRC classification):
sculptures and installations
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sculptures and installations
Work Category (VRC classification)
false
Work Material and Technique (display):
blood from 100 poets
Image Source Reproduction refid:
059979
Image Rights (display):
© Eleanor Antin
Work Rights (display):
© Eleanor Antin
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Holding Institution:
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Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Collection
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