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For more than fifty years, Eleanor Antin (b. 1935, New York) has been a distinctive voice in American contemporary art, notably for building lasting and pioneering connections between conceptual art and feminist movements, literature, and performance. This extensive monograph, the most comprehensive on Antin to date, accompanies the first retrospective of the artist in twenty-five years and the first ever in Europe. It reproduces images of Antin's seminal works, many of which circle around her various invented personas, and of her performances, photographs, films and installations. It also includes previously unpublished ephemera, poems, and images.The commissioned texts each dive into a key facet of Antin's work: her life in New York and then San Diego; her Jewish identity, her feminist stance, the performative aspect of her work, her films, the impact of her art on a younger generation of artists, and her unfailing humour. It also features a complete exhibition history, a comprehensive list of works, and a detailed timeline of her life.

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Eleanor Antin is a key figure emerging from the Conceptual art movements of the 1970s. Today as an octogenarian artist, she remains one of the world's leading Feminist artists. Her ground-breaking practice spans five decades and has covered themes surrounding identity, gender, autobiography, class and social structures. Antin's multi-disciplinary approach includes installation, painting, drawing, writing and most notably photography and performance. Over the last 50 years Antin has performed and exhibited her work internationally. Includes texts by Lisa E. Bloom, Andrea Bowers, Haden Guest, Ingrid Luquet-Gad, Jason McBride, Christiane Meyer-Stoll, Olaf Nicolai, Letizia Ragaglia, Alexandro Segade, Bettina Steinbrügge.

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