Most radically, the entire film is framed as if seen through the eyes of an observant but unjudging third party, a feline named Kitch, the first of several “muse cats” that Ms. Schneemann bonded with and included in her art over the years. Some feminists viewed her body-positive, pro-sensual art as exploitative, not as a bold assertion of female agency. Carolee Schneemann was born on Oct. 12, 1939, into a middle-class family in Fox Chase, Pa., then a rural neighborhood of Philadelphia. She remembered poring over his anatomy books when she was very young. “There was always physicality around us,” she said in an interview, “leaking, spilling out of boundaries, wounded farmers with bleeding limbs, hemorrhages, infections.

Source: New York Times March 10, 2019 19:31 UTC