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Antin’s Influences
Artist Carolee Schneemann has observed of Eleanor Antin’s Blood of a Poet Box 1965–8 (Tate T14882) that it demonstrated ‘a unique aspect of combining medical science, minimalism, ritual and community participation’.1Blood of a Poet Box was notably of its time, in that it related to contemporaneous movements such as conceptual art, Fluxus and performance art, as well as drawing on significant artistic precedents including surrealism, dada and the work of Marcel Duchamp, who straddled these two avant-garde movements. In this way, Blood of a Poet Box suggests that Antin was as well versed in developments and debates in art as she was familiar with the New York poetry scene.
Cocteau and Duchamp
Blood of a Poet Box was loosely inspired by and titled for Jean Cocteau’s 1930 film Le Sang d’un Poète (The Blood of a Poet), which premiered in New York at the Fifth Avenue Playhouse in 1931 and was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art’s circulating film library shortly after the library’s establishment in 1935.2 The French writer, filmmaker and artist had enjoyed a significant reception in the United States since the 1920s, via little magazines and poetry journals such as Little Review, Transatlantic Review, New Directions and Kenyon Review
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James in 1948. Dior called him “the greatest talent of my generation,” but he was often too early to get credit for his breakthroughs.Photograph by Irving Penn / © The Irving Penn Foundation
I have never met any of the lucky women who owned a dress by Charles James. A college friend, though, had an aunt who wore a James to her engagement party, in the late nineteen-fifties. It must have been one of his last creations, since he went out of business in 1958. “Imagine that! A James in the family!” my friend said, as if she were speaking of a Vermeer. “I’ve always wondered what happened to it.”
I’ve always wondered what happened to James. His name draws a blank outside the fashion world, although Christian Dior called him “the greatest talent of my generation,” and Balenciaga, a miser with his enthusiasms, considered James “the only one in the world who has raised dressmaking from an applied art to a pure art.” But by the time this compliment reached James’s ears he was living at the Chelsea Hotel, nearly destitute, and estranged from all but a few devotees. They were mostly members of a wild younger generation that included Halston, a former protégé, who briefly gave James a job and, in 1969, produced a retrospective of his work in an East Village night club. James turned o
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Biographies of Near to the ground of interpretation Voices
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