Apr 10, 2025 - Sale 2699

Sale 2699 - Lot 238

Unsold
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200

CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN (1939-2019)


Small archive of 23 items: 18 exhibition and performance announcements, two catalogues, and three of her books, including two books Signed and Inscribed by her.
The books: The Lebanon series: "War mop," "Souvenir of-- Burj al-Brajneh-- Nabatiyeh, "Souvenir of Tyre-- Sidon, Damour--." Signed and dated, "C.S. / 9/83," at lower right of rear cover. 24 unnumbered pages. Small 4to, self-wrappers, staple binding; coin-sized hole in rear cover with loss to 5 words of text, faint dampstaining affecting front and rear covers * More Than Meat Joy. 281 pages. Oblong 4to, publisher's cloth; some fading to edges of dust jacket. First edition * Video Burn. Signed and Inscribed, "With Love To / Max & Marion / Carolee 8/92," on front inside cover. Additionally signed and numbered on inside rear cover ("8/150 / C. Schneemann"). 28 unnumbered pages. Oblong 8vo, printed wrappers, staple binding, minor abrasions to upper right cover. First edition, number 8 of 150 signed copies. [New York: self-published, 1983]; (New Paltz): Documentext, 1979; [San Francisco]: (San Francisco Art Institute, 1992); inscriptions: September 1983; August 1992.
The catalogues: Carolee Schneemann: I. Early Work 1960/1970 * Carolee Schneemann: II. Recent Work. Each 28 unnumbered pages. Each oblong 8vo, printed wrappers, perfect binding; last 5 leaves of second catalogue affected my moderate dampstaining. [New Paltz]: Documentext, (1982; 83).
The announcements, most are postcards, each 17x11 inches or smaller: 1976: "Up to and Including Her Limits," The Kitchen, New York * "Homerunmuse," Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn * "Homerunmuse," Franklin Furnace, New York * "Carolee Schneeman FILMS," Collective for Living Cinema, New York * "Forbidden Actions--Museums. No. 1 & No. 2," The Alternative Gallery System, New York.
1980: "Dirty Pictures by Carolee Schneemann," Collective for Living Cinema, New York * "More Than Meat Joy First Anniversary Celebration," Wave Books, New York.
1981: "Fresh Blood. A Dream Morphology," Women's Interart Center, New York * "Fresh Blood. A Dream Morphology," promotional postcard showing reproduction of photograph by Lisa Kahane * "The Broken Surface," Bennington College, Bennington; Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York; Virginia Tech, Blacksburg * "Carolee Schneemann & Bruce Andrews: Reading," 10 Leonard Street, New York.
1984: "Inaugural Show," Night Gallery, New York * "Body Politic," Tower, New York.
2001: "More Wrong Things," White Box, New York * "More Wrong Things," press release for exhibition at White Box.
2004: "Infinity Kisses II," Remy Toledo Gallery, New York.
2006: "Corporeal--Photographic Works 1963-2005," P.P.O.W., New York.
2007: "Breaking Borders," Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto.