Carolee Schneemann

 Portrait of Lauren Elkin, 2022. © Sophie Davidson. Courtesy: Penguin Random House

Portrait of Lauren Elkin, 2022. © Sophie Davidson. Courtesy: Penguin Random House

The author of Art Monsters (2023), which takes up women artists whose works reflect the experiences and insights of their own bodies, historicizes the stakes of the unruly feminine.

 Carolee Schneemann, Meat Joy,16–18 November 1964, Judson Dance Theater, Judson Memorial Church, New York; Photo © 2022 Estate of Robert R. McElroy / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS)  

Carolee Schneemann, Meat Joy, November 16–18, 1964, Judson Dance Theater, Judson Memorial Church, New York. Photo © 2022 Estate of Robert R. McElroy / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS)

Carolee Schneemann wrested pleasure from taboos, showing how more the body is than a sex-negative society can admit. Read our review of her latest retrospective at Barbican in London.

 Carolee Schneemann Up To And Including Her Limits  (1973-76)

Carolee Schneemann
Up To And Including Her Limits (1973-76)

A talk between Carolee Schneemann and Hans Ulrich Obrist and in June 2006