Carolee Schneemann by Duncan McCorquodale, ed.Call Number: N6537.S3556 A4 2015
ISBN: 1908966513
Publication Date: 2016
*Carolee Schneemann is the recipient of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement Award at the 57th Venice Bienalle 2017* Carolee Schneemann is one of the most important artists of the postwar period. Her work in a range of media--painting, film, video, dance and performance, constructions and installations, the written word, and assemblage--presents an unparalleled catalogue of radical aesthetic experimentation. Meat Joy, 1964; Fuses, 1964-66; Up To and Including Her Limits, 1973-1976; Interior Scroll, 1975, are now considered canonical projects, required entries in any meaningful account of contemporary art, belying their once notoriety as feminist challenges of the very concept of the art historical canon. Throughout the last fifty years, Schneemann has participated in the most significant formulations of the avant-garde, having made crucial contributions in Fluxus, happenings, expanded cinema, and performance cultures, while complicating generic definitions that might cohere to her work. Schneemann has been the subject of numerous exhibitions and publications throughout her career, and her work is in the collections of Tate Modern, Commune di Milano, Centre Georges Pompidou, Muzeum Wspczesne Wroclaw, Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art.