Janine Antoni

by Antoni, Janine; Bechtler, Cristina; Cameron, Dan

• ISBN13: 9783775709323
• ISBN10: 3775709320
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-08-01
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Summary

Janine Antoni has played a leading role in performance and installation art during the past decade. She had placed her own body at the center of her work, exploring how the body is both absent and present, visible and invisible. Part of Antoni's groundbreaking method has been to use her body both as an art object and as a functioning tool, as canvas, palette and paintbrush--she ''draws'' with a twitch of her eyelashes, ''paints'' with her hair, and ''sculpts'' blocks of fat with her teeth. On the other hand, Antoni just as often takes as her point of departure the sleeping, resting, more or less prenatal body. In Slumber, an electric encephalograph is used to record the instinctive movements of her pupils, and the resulting graphic pattern is integrated into a weaving piece the day after, which, in turn, serves as her blanket at night. The first monograph devoted to Antoni, this brilliant new volume documents the artist's major works in full color, alongside insightful essays.

Table of Contents

Slumber: A Fairytale	10	(14)
Nancy Spector on Slumber and Butterfly Kisses
Parts and Whole	24	(18)
Dan Cameron on Gnaw, Beatrice Thomas and Swoon
Antoni's Difference	42	(38)
Ewa Lajer-Burcharth on Loving Care and Lick and Lather
Child's Play	80	(10)
Marina Warner on Ready or Not, Here I Come
Inmost	90	(12)
Tender Buttons, Unveiling, Grope, Ingrown, Mortar and Pestle
Mother Lode	102	(22)
Amy Cappellazzo on Momme, Wean, Eureka, Credle and Coddle
Conjunctions and Disjunctions	124	(14)
Rosa Martinez on Mom and Dad and and
Seam	138	(20)
United Society of Shakers, Sabbathday Lake, Maine
List of Works, Biography	158