Carolee Shneemann Meat Joy Analysis

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Carolee Schneemann is a contemporary artist at the age of 75, and was born in Pennsylvania on the 12th of October in 1939. She lives on today as a former graduate of University of Illinois and Bard College and is known for her photography, filmmaking, and paintings on the human body’s sexuality, and gender. A piece that caught my eye from the Art History book was called Meat Joy, that appeared to be sort of add at first. Meat Joy(1964) was a radical feminist piece that was performed in a theatre to depict the view of humans “erotic rite”, and celebrated “flesh as material”(pg 1089). In the photograph of the performance, it shows both women and men rolling, and playing around in trash. The trash consisted f raw bloody chickens, fish, sausage,

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