The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 28, 2024

100 Boots

100 Boots

1971–73
Location: not on view

Description

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.
  • Eleanor Antin
    Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, NY
    December 3, 2018
    the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Antin, Eleanor. 100 Boots. Philadelphia, Pa: Running, 1999. p. 64-71
    “Reading Ruscha.” Art in America 61, no. 6 (November – December 1973) p. 64-71
    Delahoyd, Mary, and Jacki Apple. Alternatives in Retrospect: An Historical Overview 1969-1975. New York: The New Museum, 1981.
    Fox, Howard N., Eleanor Antin, and Lisa E. Bloom. Eleanor Antin. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1999.
    Godfrey, Mark. “Image Structures.” Artforum 43, no. 6 (February 2005) p. 146-153
    Lewallen, Constance, Karen Moss, Julia Bryan-Wilson, and Anne Rorimer. State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011.
    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.
  • {{cite web|title=100 Boots|url=false|author=Eleanor Antin|year=1971–73|access-date=28 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2018.294.15