Eleanor Antin: Historical Takes Book

A pioneering conceptual and multidisciplinary artist, Antin haslately turned her attention to creating enormous photo-realistsettings based on Greek and Roman history and mythology.Gathered here for the first time in book form, these works,often displayed as two-page spreads, are both comic andpsychologically complex re-enactments from literature:Roman Allegories, Last Days of Pompeii, and Helen s Odyssey.Employing her friends as models, Antin has created a series oftableaux which touch on themes of herstory whilecommenting on the roles women play in allegory and myth.Including a foreword by the San Diego Museum of Art directorDerrick Cartwright, an interview with the artist by critic MaxKozloff, and essays by Betti-Sue Hertz and Amelia G. Jones,this volume also contains a selection of works from threeearlier projects from the 1970s and 1980s: The King, Angel ofMercy, and Recollections of My Life with Diaghilev. Designed toecho a neoclassical work from the nineteenth century, thisvolume is an indispensable survey of Antin s influential work inphotography.Read More