Carolee Schneemann
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 281
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Schneemann began as an early Happenings artist, a choreographer at New York's Judson Dance Theater, a painter who collaborated with the composers as James Tenney & Philip Corner, & an experimental filmmaker whose explorations of the body continue to be groundbreaking. An outspoken artist on social issues, she has been at the forefront of the gender debates since the late 1960s. More Than Meat Joy is a labor of love, a superbly designed marriage of pictures & text that is simply one of the essential volumes in modern art history. Here are selections from the artist's notebooks, 1958-1977, & documentation of dozens of important performance pieces, placed in context by manifestos, letters, descriptions, scripts, notes, contemporary documents, & wonderful photographs on almost every page. In an appendix, there are notes on unperformed works, a chronology, a filmography (her short erotic film, Fuses, is a landmark in modern avant-garde film), a bibliography, & a collection of tributes from her admiring artist contemporaries: Robert Kelly, Paul Blackburn, Dick Higgins, Jonas Mekas, John Cage, Amos Vogel, Jerome Rothenberg, Alison Knowles, & others."-Michael Perkins, Woodstock Times