Oral history interview with Carolee Schneemann

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Oral history interview with Carolee Schneemann

2009 March 1

An interview of Carolee Schneemann, conducted 2009 March 1, by Judith Olch Richards, for the Archives of American Art, at Schneemann's home and studio, in New Paltz, New York.

Sound recording, master: 4 sound discs (3 hr., 49 min.) digital; 2 5/8 in.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7447831

Archives of American Art

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Schneemann, Carolee, 1939-

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Carolee Schneemann actively engaged in performance art, experimental film-making, the Fluxus movement and feminist theory in the 1960s-1970s. The artist is best known for the provocative use of her nude body to explore personal expression, sexual taboos and feminism in both multi-media performances and solo improvisational work. Born in 1939, Schneemann studied painting at the University of Illinois and Bennington College in the late-1950s. Her performance work evolved out of a desir...

Richards, Judith Olch

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