After buying 100 surplus army boots, Eleanor Antin arranged and photographed them in different settings across the United States, then turned her pictures into postcards that she mailed to about 1,000 people around the world at intervals ranging from three days to five weeks. The project, lasting two and a half years, found its conclusion when the Museum of Modern Art offered to exhibit the series; the final postcard shows the 100 boots entering the museum. Together, they tell an epic, humorous story while challenging the idea of the “unique” work of art and bypassing traditional art-world distribution and exhibition systems.