Carolee Schneemann
She is an American Visual Artist, born in 1939. Her works are based on thems of body, sexuality and gender. Her research interests are on visual traditions, taboos, and body in relation to their social aspect.
Some of her works are:
Meat Joy (1964)
Up to and Including her Limits (1973)
Interior Scroll (1975)
Venus Vectors (1986)
Vulva's Morphia (1995)
Flange 6 rpm (2013)
Schneemann in her book Cezanne, she was a great painter (1976) states:
In the early 60's I felt quite alone in my existence on the integrity of my own sexuality and creativity. There were many reasons for my use of the naked body... to break the taboos against the vitality of the naked body in movement, to eroticize my guilt-ridden culture further to confound this culture's sexual rigidities- that the life of the body is more variously expressive than a sex-negative society can admit.
I didn't stand naked in front of 300 people because I wanted to be fucked; but because my work and sex was harmoniously experienced I could have the audacity or courage to show the body as a source of varying emotive power: Poignant, funny, beautiful, functional, plastic, concrete, "abstract"; the key too related perceptions of our own nature as well as the organic and constructed worlds with which we surround ourselves...
In some sense I made a gift of my body to other women; giving our bodies back to ourselves.' (Schneemann, 1980)