A pioneering conceptual and multidisciplinary artist, Antin has
lately turned her attention to creating enormous photo-realist
settings based on Greek and Roman history and mythology.
Gathered here for the first time in book form, these works,
often displayed as two-page spreads, are both comic and
psychologically complex re-enactments from literature:
Roman Allegories, Last Days of Pompeii, and Helen s Odyssey.
Employing her friends as models, Antin has created a series of
tableaux which touch on themes of herstory while
commenting on the roles women play in allegory and myth.
Including a foreword by the San Diego Museum of Art director
Derrick Cartwright, an interview with the artist by critic Max
Kozloff, and essays by Betti-Sue Hertz and Amelia G. Jones,
this volume also contains a selection of works from three
earlier projects from the 1970s and 1980s: The King, Angel of
Mercy, and Recollections of My Life with Diaghilev. Designed to
echo a neoclassical work from the nineteenth century, this
volume is an indispensable survey of Antin s influential work in
photography.