Carolee Schneemann

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Carolee Schneemann traces the prolific six-decade career of this feminist icon and experimental artist. The book explores her diverse and transgressive work, from early paintings and kinetic sculptures to radical performances, pioneering films, and multi-media installations. It sheds light on Schneemann’s engagement with sexual expression, taboo, female objectification, war trauma, and the fragility of the body, enriched by archival materials that provide intimate insight into her creative process.
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This volume is ideal for readers interested in feminist art, experimental performance, and interdisciplinary cultural studies.

Traces the feminist icon Carolee Schneemann’s prolific six-decade output, spanning her remarkably diverse, transgressive, and interdisciplinary expression

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Traces the feminist icon Carolee Schneemann’s prolific six-decade output, spanning her remarkably diverse, transgressive, and interdisciplinary expression

Carolee Schneemann (1939–2019) was one of the most experimental artists of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. This book traces the feminist icon’s prolific six-decade output, spanning her remarkably diverse, transgressive, and interdisciplinary expression. Contributions from leading and emerging scholars, writers, and artists shed new light on Schneemann’s work, which addressed everything from sexual expression, taboo, and the objectification of women, to the trauma of war and the precarity of the body.

The publication features the artist’s experimental early paintings, assemblages, and kinetic sculptures, rarely seen photographs of her radical performances, her pioneering films, and groundbreaking multi-media installations. Archival material is interspersed throughout, offering intimate insights into Schneemann’s creative process.

An artist who was concerned with lived experience—celebrating ecstasy, confronting human suffering, and everything in between—Schneemann’s experimental work addresses pressing social and political concerns, positioning her as one of the most relevant, provocative, and inspiring artists in recent years.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780300260649

Publisher: Yale University Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 13 September 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Yale University Press

Illustration: 459 color + b-w illus.

Contributors:

Contributions by Jo Applin
Edited by Lotte Johnson
Edited by Chris Bayley
Contributions by Karen Di Franco
Contributions by Jennifer Doyle
Contributions by Elena Gorfinkel
Contributions by Alison Green
Contributions by Emily LaBarge
T. Jean Lax Thomas
Edited by Lotte Johnson

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 219.0mm

Height: 279.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 352

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Arts & Culture Education & Reference Non-Fiction

About the Author

Lotte Johnson is a curator at Barbican Art Gallery, London. Chris Bayley was formerly an assistant curator at Barbican Art Gallery (now an assistant curator at the Serpentine, London).