Carolee Schneemann is a multidisciplinary American artist famously knowing for her controversial performance pieces that transformed the definition of art and evoked subject matter on the body,gender and sexuality. Shigeko Kubota is a Japanese born artist active within the Tokyo avant-garde movements in the 1960’s who moved to America and became involved within the fluxus performance movements she is also knowing for her views on gender and sexuality. I am going to draw upon comparisons in these artists work paying especial attention to Carolee Schneemann’s ‘up to and including her limits’ (1973) and Shigeko Kubota’s ‘vagina painting’ (1965).

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