Carolee Schneemann obituary

American pioneer of feminist art and avant-garde performanceWhen the artist Carolee Schneemann, who has died aged 79, first exhibited in Paris in 1964, a shocked Marcel Duchamp declared the performance the messiest work of art that France had ever witnessed. Meat Joy featured half a dozen men and women, semi-nude and plastered in red paint, writhing with dead fish and raw chicken, as well as each other.“Sensuality was always confused with pornography,” Schneemann later said of Meat J