She has spent 50 years beguiling and outraging audiences in equal measure. The artist provocateur talks fearlessness,feminism – and what she’s done for Kim Kardashian
“Don’t bring your underaged children or grandchildren. Don’t bring your grandmother or other relatives. Don’t bring your out-of-town guests. The current exhibit is abominable. I don’t know what it is, but it isn’t art.” A unique book about Carolee Schneemann begins with this warning from a visitor to one of her exhibitions. This review may seem harsh or hysterical, and but it’s also fitting: at 76 years used,the artist still divides opinion. For the final 50 years, she has made art that tackles terrorism, and war,sex, sensuality and love – “everything from the joyful to the more violent and ferocious aspects of American culture, or with the outrage always coming from a very American sense of righteousness”. The book chronicles it all. It is called Unforgivable.
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Source: theguardian.com