Eleanora Antin's Life
Antin’s first twenty years were full of changes in the United States, including The Great Depression, World War II, the Harlem Renaissance, Second Wave Feminism, The Vietnam War, and Third Wave Feminism.
Antin was a first generation American born in New York City to Polish Jewish immigrants during the Great Depression. She attended high school in Harlem post-Harlem renaissance, (the cultural, social, artistic movement in late 1930s Harlem, NYC). As a result, Antin grew up surrounded by different types of art that were produced during her childhood. When Antin was two, Wartime broke out in the United States, and it did not end until she was ten. As a result of the time period in which she was born, Antin’s life was always full of war. Less …show more content…
Second wave feminism is a movement where woman fought for having more to life than the few roles they could be without societal judgment being a: homemaker, secretary, school teacher, or nurse. Women were breaking free from lifestyle ideals that most did not want to …show more content…
Her art was influenced by Francophone art forms, such as ballet in her persona, Eleanora Antinova. Many people moved from Francophone areas in the Southern United States to Harlem, bringing Francophone ideas with them such as ballet.
Antin’s art is considered Feminist art over everything else. She was in her 20s during Second Wave Feminism and produced her art piece The Triumph of Pan (After Poussin) in 2004 during Third Wave Feminism. An important part of Third Wave Feminism was abolishing gender stereotypes and gender role expectations.
Truly, Antin was a third wave feminist during the time of second wave feminism, and she shows it in her work Carvings, 1972, but also shows it in her triumph of Pan. She replaces half of the men with woman, without changing the outfits or poses. Her goal was to show that woman can be the same as men. In Carvings, she follows gender stereotypes and ideals of how woman’s bodies should look. She loses 10 pounds in 37 days, documenting her body from the front and profile with pictures every day. Her goal is to show how ridiculous body standards are, but also to make the female body seem impersonal instead of
Antin was a first generation American born in New York City to Polish Jewish immigrants during the Great Depression. She attended high school in Harlem post-Harlem renaissance, (the cultural, social, artistic movement in late 1930s Harlem, NYC). As a result, Antin grew up surrounded by different types of art that were produced during her childhood. When Antin was two, Wartime broke out in the United States, and it did not end until she was ten. As a result of the time period in which she was born, Antin’s life was always full of war. Less …show more content…
Second wave feminism is a movement where woman fought for having more to life than the few roles they could be without societal judgment being a: homemaker, secretary, school teacher, or nurse. Women were breaking free from lifestyle ideals that most did not want to …show more content…
Her art was influenced by Francophone art forms, such as ballet in her persona, Eleanora Antinova. Many people moved from Francophone areas in the Southern United States to Harlem, bringing Francophone ideas with them such as ballet.
Antin’s art is considered Feminist art over everything else. She was in her 20s during Second Wave Feminism and produced her art piece The Triumph of Pan (After Poussin) in 2004 during Third Wave Feminism. An important part of Third Wave Feminism was abolishing gender stereotypes and gender role expectations.
Truly, Antin was a third wave feminist during the time of second wave feminism, and she shows it in her work Carvings, 1972, but also shows it in her triumph of Pan. She replaces half of the men with woman, without changing the outfits or poses. Her goal was to show that woman can be the same as men. In Carvings, she follows gender stereotypes and ideals of how woman’s bodies should look. She loses 10 pounds in 37 days, documenting her body from the front and profile with pictures every day. Her goal is to show how ridiculous body standards are, but also to make the female body seem impersonal instead of