The second volume in a pair of exhibition catalogues featuring Carolee Schneemann’s recent painting, collage, and video work at Max Hutchinson Gallery in New York. Includes essays by Ted Castle and Julia Ballerini.
The works reproduced in this catalog are typical of Schneemann’s oeuvre, incorporating an array of media (painting, sculpture, sound, and video, among others) and engaging with themes of the body and embodiment, gender and domesticity, eroticism. Yet in her introduction to the book, art history professor and critic Julia Ballerini notes that elements of Schneemann’s earlier works are missing from this exhibition—”earthy” colors replaced by brighter ones, “cutting shards of mirror glass… dispossessed by the glitter and shimmer of scraps of reflective fluorescent paper.” The book includes a full catalog list of the works included, as well as a CV of Schneemann’s exhibitions, films, collections, and bibliography.