Eleanor Antin

Eleanor Antin, who has worked in film, video, photography, installation, writing and performance since the 1960s, uses fictional characters, autobiography and narrative to invent histories and explore what she calls, "the slippery nature of the self." In her performance-based video works, Antin uses role-playing and artifice as conceptual devices, adopting archetypal personae — a ballerina, a king, a nurse — in her theatrical dramatizations of identity and representation. full biography

Bibliography

Crary, Jonathon and Kim Levin. The Angel of Mercy and the Fiction of History. San Diego, CA: La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, 1977.

Fox, Howard N. Eleanor Antin. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Fellows of Contemporary Art, 1999. Additional essay by Lisa E. Bloom.

Ollman, Leah. "Getting Into Character." Art in America Feb. 2000.

Sayre, Henry. The Object of Performance: The American Avant-Garde since 1970. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1989.

Skollar, Jeffrey. "Postmodern Narrative Film Strategy in Man Without a World." Film Quarterly Fall 1995.