Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics

Carolee Schneemann's prolific six-decade output is explored in this book, spanning her diverse, transgressive, and interdisciplinary expression. Contributors shed new light on her work, which addressed urgent topics from sexual expression and the objectification of women to human suffering and the violence of war.

Format: Hardback
Length: 352 pages
Publication date: 13 September 2022
Publisher: Yale University Press

Carolee Schneemann (1939–2019) was a pioneering artist of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. This book explores six decades of the feminist icon's diverse, transgressive, and interdisciplinary expression through Schneemann's experimental early paintings, sculptural assemblages, and kinetic works; rarely seen photographs of her radical performances; her pioneering films; and groundbreaking multi-media installations. Contributors shed new light on Schneemann's work, which addressed urgent topics from sexual expression and the objectification of women to human suffering and the violence of war. An artist who was concerned with the precarious lived experience of both humans and animals, this book positions Schneemann as one of the most relevant, provocative, and inspiring artists in recent years.

Carolee Schneemann (1939–2019) was a pioneering artist of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. This book explores six decades of the feminist icon's diverse, transgressive, and interdisciplinary expression through Schneemann's experimental early paintings, sculptural assemblages, and kinetic works; rarely seen photographs of her radical performances; her pioneering films; and groundbreaking multi-media installations. Contributors shed new light on Schneemann's work, which addressed urgent topics from sexual expression and the objectification of women to human suffering and the violence of war. An artist who was concerned with the precarious lived experience of both humans and animals, this book positions Schneemann as one of the most relevant, provocative, and inspiring artists in recent years.

Carolee Schneemann (1939–2019) was a pioneering artist of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. This book explores six decades of the feminist icon's diverse, transgressive, and interdisciplinary expression through Schneemann's experimental early paintings, sculptural assemblages, and kinetic works; rarely seen photographs of her radical performances; her pioneering films; and groundbreaking multi-media installations. Contributors shed new light on Schneemann's work, which addressed urgent topics from sexual expression and the objectification of women to human suffering and the violence of war. An artist who was concerned with the precarious lived experience of both humans and animals, this book positions Schneemann as one of the most relevant, provocative, and inspiring artists in recent years.

Weight: 1782g
Dimension: 223 x 284 x 37 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780300260649