Just before pioneer radical feminist artist Carolee Schneemann died in 2019 at the age of 79, the establishment finally honoured her work, awarding her the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale and staging her first comprehensive retrospective at MoMA PS1. The trailblazing artist, best known for works including Meat Joy (1964) and Interior Scroll(1975), frequently used her body to challenge the patriarchy and reclaim the power of women’s sexual agency before, during, and after the Women’s Liberation Movement.
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For her efforts, Schneemann was expelled from Bard College, physically attacked during one performance, and rejected by feminists as pandering to the male gaze. Yet Schneemann was a giant upon whose shoulders so many women artists and pop culture icons stand, and her legacy is being honoured with a selection of iconic works in the “Cruel Optimism” section of the Felix LA Art Fair.
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