Creator of such acclaimed works as the performance Meat Joy and the
film Fuses, for decades the artist Carolee Schneemann has saved the
letters she has written and received. Much of this correspondence
is published here for the first time, providing an epistolary
history of Schneemann and other figures central to the
international avant-garde of happenings, Fluxus, performance, and
conceptual art. Schneemann corresponded for more than forty years
with such figures as the composer James Tenney, the filmmaker Stan
Brakhage, the artist Dick Higgins, the dancer and filmmaker Yvonne
Rainer, the poet Clayton Eshleman, and the psychiatrist Joseph
Berke. Her "tribe," as she called it, altered the conditions under
which art is made and the form in which it is presented, shifting
emphasis from the private creation of unique objects to direct
engagement with the public in ephemeral performances and in
expanded, nontraditional forms of music, film, dance, theater, and
literature. Kristine Stiles selected, edited, annotated, and wrote
the introduction to the letters, assembling them so that readers
can follow the development of Schneemann's art, thought, and
private and public relationships. The correspondence chronicles a
history of energy and invention, joy and sorrow, and charged
personal and artistic struggles. It sheds light on the internecine
aesthetic politics and mundane activities that constitute the
exasperating vicissitudes of making art, building an artistic
reputation, and negotiating an industry as unpredictable and
demanding as the art world in the mid- to late twentieth century.
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