Imaging Her Erotics : Essays, Interviews, Projects

by Carolee Schneemann

• ISBN13: 9780262194594
• ISBN10: 0262194597
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Mit Pr

Summary

Carolee Schneemann is one of the pioneers of performance, installation, and video art. Although other visual artists, such as Salvador Dali and Yves Klein, had used live self-portraiture and performance as a vehicle for public provocation, Schneemann was among the first to use her body to animate the relationship between the world of lived experience and the imagination, as well as issues of the erotic, the sacred, and the taboo. In the 1960s, her work prefigured the feminist movement's sexual self-assertion for women, and by the mid-1970s, her work anticipated the field of women's studies and its critique of patriarchal institutions. In the 1980s, she was one of the first to experiment with virtual environments. Imaging Her Eroticsintegrates images from Schneemann's works in painting, collage, drawing, and video sculptures with written material drawn from the artist's journals, dream diaries, essays, and lectures. Encompassing four decades of her work, it demonstrates her profound influence on artists in all media. An opening essay by Kristine Stiles presents Schneemann's major themes and places her work in a historical context. Among other topics, the book covers Schneemann's response to the widespread use by artists of the ideas of theoreticians such as Georges Bataille, Jacques Derrida, and Jacques Lacan; her relationship to male artists such as Joseph Cornell, Robert Morris, and Claes Oldenburg; and reminiscences about her friends Ana Mendieta, Charlotte Moorman, and Hannah Wilke. The book also contains essays by Jay Murphy and David Levi-Strauss and interviews with the artist by Kate Haug, Linda Montano, and Aviva Rahmani.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. viii
The Painter As an Instrument of Real Time	p. 2
Proto-Feminist Body
Interview with Kate Haug	p. 20
From the Notebooks	p. 46
"Maximus at Gloucester": a Visit to Charles Olson	p. 52
Eye Body: 36 Transformative Actions	p. 55
Meat Joy	p. 60
Snows	p. 74
Solanas in a Sea of Men	p. 90
Two London Letters	p. 94
Valie	p. 97
Notes from First Viewing of a Film by Dusan Makavejev: W.R. Mysteries of the Organism	p. 98
Sexual Parameters	p. 104
Interview with ND	p. 112
Feminist Erotic Iconography
Interview with Linda Montano	p. 130
Istory of a Girl Pornographer	p. 136
American I Ching Apple Pie	p. 140
Cezanne, She was a Great Painter: Unbroken Words to Women--Sexuality Creativity Language Art Istory	p. 144
Women in the Year 2000	p. 146
Interior Scroll	p. 151
Up to and Including Her Limits	p. 162
Dirty Pictures	p. 166
Anti-Demeter: The More I Give the More You Steal	p. 176
Homerunmuse	p. 180
The Lebanon Series	p. 186
Interview with Carl Heyward	p. 196
Censorship
On Censorship: Interview with Aviva Rahmani	p. 210
Notes from the Underground: A Feminist Pornographer in Moscow	p. 216
Dream Morphologies
Assimilating the Unassimilable: Carolee Schneemann in Relation to Antonin Artaud	p. 226
Fresh Blood--A Dream Morphology	p. 234
Venus Vectors	p. 250
Cycladic Imprints	p. 254
Infinity Kisses	p. 262
Video Rocks	p. 266
Cats, Dreams, and Interior Knowledge--Cat Scan: Interview with William Peterson	p. 270
Homage to Ana Mendieta	p. 276
Mortal Coils	p. 278
Plague Column: Known/Unknown	p. 286
Vulva's Morphia	p. 298
Vespers Pool	p. 308
Love Rides Aristotle Through the Audience: Body, Image, and Idea in the Work of Carolee Schneemann	p. 316
On My Desk	p. 328
Videos/Filmography	p. 329
Selected Bibliography	p. 330
Index	p. 338
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