Meat Joy
Details
Carolee Schneemann (b. 1939)
Meat Joy
signed, titled and dated '"MEAT JOY" 1964 by Carolee Schneemann' (on the reverse); signed again, titled again, numbered and dated again '"MEAT JOY" '64 2/2 C. Schneemann' (on the mount); signed a third time and inscribed 'for Suzanne Happy Birthday with great Thanks + love, Carolee October 2005' (on the reverse of the backing board)
gelatin silver print
14 x 17 in. (35.6 x 43.2 cm.)
Executed in 1964. This work is number two from an edition of two.
Meat Joy
signed, titled and dated '"MEAT JOY" 1964 by Carolee Schneemann' (on the reverse); signed again, titled again, numbered and dated again '"MEAT JOY" '64 2/2 C. Schneemann' (on the mount); signed a third time and inscribed 'for Suzanne Happy Birthday with great Thanks + love, Carolee October 2005' (on the reverse of the backing board)
gelatin silver print
14 x 17 in. (35.6 x 43.2 cm.)
Executed in 1964. This work is number two from an edition of two.
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner
Literature
T. Nichols Goodeve, "How a Body Shaped by a Cat and a Cat Shaped by a Human Pioneered a New Species of Cinema," Carolee Schneemann, Cambridge, 2007, p. 39 (another example illustrated).
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