Imaging Her Erotics: Essays, Interviews, Projects.
Schneemann, Carolee. Imaging Her Erotics: Essays, Interviews, Projects. London and Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2002.
4to.; 347pp.; illustrated throughout in black-and-white; illustrated endpapers; red cloth, stamped in black on spine; pictorial color dust-jacket; in a custom purple silk clamshell box, stamped on spine, as issued.
First edition, limited issue; one of 33 copies (this is #22). Signed and numbered on title page: C Schneemann 22/33. With laid in “vulvic impression” on rag paper, signed C.S., and gelatin silver print titled, dated, signed and numbered: from “Eye Body” 1963 22/33 C.S. 05.
Imaging Her Erotics integrates images from Schneemann’s works in painting, collage, drawing, and video sculptures with written material. Schneemann’s critical and creative writings take multiple forms: interviews, artist’s statements, scripts, and narratives of films and performances, theoretical/art historical essays, feminist philosophy, notes, autobiography, letters. Imaging Her Erotics is replete with images, which, in consort with its alternating parts of white and black backgrounds, make the bo at once visual and tactile. Encompassing four decades of her work, it demonstrates her profound influence on artists in all media.
Carolee Schneemann is one of the pioneers of performance, installation, and video art. Although other visual artists had used live self-portraiture and performance as a vehicle for public provocation, Schneemann was among the first to use her body to animate the relationship between the world of lived experience and the imagination, as well as issues of the erotic, the sacred, and the taboo.
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