Excerpt of email from Eleanor Antin to Alexandra Schwartz
North American artist and author Eleanor Antin works in performance, video, film, drawing and writing. In 1965, she began her first Conceptual artwork, titled Blood of a Poet Box (1965–1968) and comprising one hundred glass slides containing blood specimens collected from one hundred poets, in homage to Jean Cocteau’s 1930s film Blood of a Poet.
