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Article: Getting into Character.
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- February 1, 2000
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Over her long and varied career, Eleanor Antin has used masquerade, performance and role-playing to extend the frontiers of her own identity. A recent retrospective provided an overview of her freewheeling polymorphism.
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