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Carolee Schneemann

Carolee Schneemann (1939 - 2019) was active/lived in New York, Illinois.  Carolee Schneemann is known for Installations, performance art, feminist issues, painting.

From the London Guardian by Robert Clark
Monday March 5, 2001

The enduring image is of the naked artist reading a text from a long scroll that she unfurls from her vagina. Carolee Schneemann performed Interior Scroll over 25 years ago. All we are presented with here are two photographic images of the event, but they are images that define a significant moment in feminist art history.

Schneemann's anti-life-class pose contributed to bringing several centuries of passive cultural acceptance of the idealized female nude to an end. After that, it seemed plain ridiculous for a circle of men to sit down and size up a reclining nude woman in the name of art.

Emerging from the experimental artworld of 1960s New York, Schneemann developed a reputation as a shamanistic gorgon-headed she-devil whose rage against female misrepresentation was conducted at a level of infectious magic that had no time for the academic perspectives of the sexual politician.&nb   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3835 characters.]  Artist bio

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