Largely rejected by the art world at the time, Carolee Schneemann embraced her self-determined role
Largely rejected by the art world at the time, Carolee Schneemann embraced her self-determined role as the ultimate cat lady, after learning from years of experience that it often takes the art world decades to catch up with transgressive women artists. Schneemann’s series Infinity Kisses began in 1981 and captures her cat Vesper’s morning ritual of giving her a kiss. This series proposes an interspecies intimacy, one that the artist nurtured with generations of cats in her farmhouse in upstate New York. Schneemann extended her career-long exploration of taboo sensuality into a series of blurry images that capture fleeting moments of hedonistic contact with a being she loved. Posted by Christian ReederCarolee Schneemann (American, 1939-2019). Infinity Kisses II, 1990-1998. Chromogenic photograph, Each sheet: 60 × 40 in. (152.4 × 101.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Marc Routh by arrangement with the Remy-Toledo Gallery, 2005.60a-b. © artist or artist’s estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum) -- source link
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