The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 19, 2024

100 Boots

100 Boots

1971–73
(American, b.1935)
America
postcard; photomechanical reproduction (relief half tone) of black and white photograph
11.4 x 17.8 cm (4 1/2 x 7 in.)
Dorothea Wright Hamilton Fund 2018.294.51
Location: not on view

Description

100 Boots consists of 51 photographic postcards that the artist mailed to recipients around 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 100 empty boots as they march from the beach in San Diego to the streets of New York.
  • Eleanor Antin
    2018
    (Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    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=19 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2018.294.51