*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 rangeof mediapainting, film, video, dance and performance, constructions and installations, thewritten word, and assemblagepresents an unparalleled catalogue of radical aestheticexperimentation.Meat Joy, 1964,Fuses, 1964-66,Up To and Including Her Limits, 1973-1976,andInterior Scroll, 1975, are now considered canonical projects, required entries in anymeaningful account of contemporary art, belying their once notoriety as feminist challenges of thevery concept of the art historical canon.
Throughout the last fifty years, Schneemann has participated in the most significant formulationsof the avant-garde, having made crucial contributions in Fluxus, happenings, expanded cinema, andperformance 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 ModernArt.
Carolee Schneemann: Unforgivable is the most thorough visual overview of Schneemanns work todate. Organized by five interrelated categoriesInterviews and Correspondence, Painting, Cinema,Sites, and Technological Processesthis volume brings together previously published essays andinterviews by authorities on the artists work. The texts, many scarce or out of print, examine thesignificance of Schneemanns work in its historical context, and its vital urgency for our present.
Contributors: Stphane Aquin, Emily Caigan, R Bruce Elder, Ron Hanson, Juan Carlos Kase, BrettKashmere, Anette Kubitza, Erica Levin, Scott MacDonald, Thomas McEvilley, Ara Osterweil,Melissa Ragona, Maura Reilly, Kristine Stiles and Kenneth White.
Carolee Schneemann is one of the most important artists of the postwar period. Her work in a rangeof mediapainting, film, video, dance and performance, constructions and installations, thewritten word, and assemblagepresents an unparalleled catalogue of radical aestheticexperimentation.Meat Joy, 1964,Fuses, 1964-66,Up To and Including Her Limits, 1973-1976,andInterior Scroll, 1975, are now considered canonical projects, required entries in anymeaningful account of contemporary art, belying their once notoriety as feminist challenges of thevery concept of the art historical canon.
Throughout the last fifty years, Schneemann has participated in the most significant formulationsof the avant-garde, having made crucial contributions in Fluxus, happenings, expanded cinema, andperformance 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 ModernArt.
Carolee Schneemann: Unforgivable is the most thorough visual overview of Schneemanns work todate. Organized by five interrelated categoriesInterviews and Correspondence, Painting, Cinema,Sites, and Technological Processesthis volume brings together previously published essays andinterviews by authorities on the artists work. The texts, many scarce or out of print, examine thesignificance of Schneemanns work in its historical context, and its vital urgency for our present.
Contributors: Stphane Aquin, Emily Caigan, R Bruce Elder, Ron Hanson, Juan Carlos Kase, BrettKashmere, Anette Kubitza, Erica Levin, Scott MacDonald, Thomas McEvilley, Ara Osterweil,Melissa Ragona, Maura Reilly, Kristine Stiles and Kenneth White.
