Carolee schneemann

10th Annual Avant Garde Festival. Carolee Schneemann, Toe Hold, photograph by Ivan Spane (1973).

Mark Arbeit

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US artist confronted taboos around sex and gender with videos and performances featuring raw meat, naked bodies and snakes

Carolee Schneemann. Portrait Partials. 1970. Thirty-five gelatin silver prints. 26 7/8 × 26 3/4" (68.3 × 67.9 cm). Acquired through the generosity of the Peter Norton Family Foundation. 200.1994. © Estate of Carolee Schneemann. Courtesy of Galerie Lelong & Co., and P•P•O•W, New York. Photography

The Carolee Schneemann Foundation is dedicated to preserving and promoting the legacy of Carolee Schneemann (1939–2019). Established by the artist in 2013, the Foundation advances the understanding of Schneemann’s work through scholarship, exhibitions, and publications. Over the next few years, the Foundation will establish a residency program at Schneemann’s home in upstate New York in order to support artists whose work shares Schneemann’s commitment to new methods of aesthetic…

She staged an event even Duchamp said was messy, filmed herself having sex, unrolled a script from her vagina – and took art away from canvas and into the stuff of life itself

Carolee Schneemann’s art has radically re-oriented preconceptions about painting away from the primacy of the visual to the primacy of the haptic.

3 posts published by Periodicals/Reference Librarian during December 2013

Artists, colleagues, and friends remember Carolee Schneemann as a force of nature, a determined visionary, and a generous listener.