Carolee Schneemann
B. 1939, Philadelphia, PA.
B. Kassandra Perez
“I always thought,
‘This is something they need. My culture is going to recognize its missing
something.’”- Carolee Schneeman
Considered
a feminist artist, Schneeman has used film, performance, photography and
installations to explore her ideas as an artist. Her themes explore the goddess
imagery, sexuality as well as the every day sexual desires of (wo)m
an.
While
studying in college in the 1950’s, she began to see herself as a feminist when
addressing her issues with the way American galleries were depicting women in the art world , and
how it stripped away any influence women may have had given the hierarchal male
influence. This unfair treatment of women artists pushed her into becoming the
artist she is known to be today.
Her work in
the 60’s mimicked that “sexual revolution” society seems to remember the decade
for, free love etc. Her work at this time involved exploring sensuality and sexuality.
Up until this point, her performance art was more of an experiment , before it
turned into this idea of liberating the female body.
Schneeman
used her body as her medium and her reasoning for this was to express that
women are both creators and an avid member of the overall creation. By doing
this she gave the female form the recognition it had been seeking for years, or
perhaps even centuries. Her body, as the naked female figure opposes the
traditional representation of women as merely objects, nude objects to be
specific.
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