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In Focus: Blood of a poet box 1965-8 by Eleanor Antin

Bradnock, Lucy E.

Authors

Lucy E. Bradnock



Abstract

Eleanor Antin (born 1935) is widely regarded as a pioneer in the fields of conceptual, feminist, and performance art. Blood of a Poet Box (L02859) is considered by the artist to have been her first major conceptual work. This multi-chapter project is a sustained analysis of that work. I consider the work's crucial place within Antin’s oeuvre and its relation to both traditional art and avant-garde precursors, including Marcel Duchamp, Jean Cocteau, and Joseph Cornell; its anticipation of the issues of gender, culture, and identity that would shape her later projects; and its documentation of the artistic and social networks of the American art and poetry communities in 1960s New York.

Citation

Bradnock, L. E. (2019). In Focus: Blood of a poet box 1965-8 by Eleanor Antin. In Focus,

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Feb 28, 2016
Online Publication Date Mar 31, 2019
Publication Date Mar 31, 2019
Deposit Date Jul 22, 2016
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal In Focus
Publisher Tate Research
Peer Reviewed Not Peer Reviewed
Keywords Eleanor Antin, Surrealism, American Art, Assemblage, Identity, Portraiture
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/774876
Publisher URL https://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/in-focus/blood-poet-box
Related Public URLs https://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/in-focus
Additional Information ISBN 978-1-84976-531-2

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