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Author : Sarah Howgate,Dawn Ades,National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain)
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691176628
Published to accompany an exhibition held at the National Portrait Gallery, London, 9 March-29 May 2017
Author : Jennifer L. Shaw
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 178914700X
In the turmoil of the 1920s and '30s, Claude Cahun challenged gender stereotypes with her powerful photographs, montages, and writings, works that appear to our twenty-first-century eyes as utterly contemporary, or even from the future. She wrote poetry and prose for major French literary magazines, worked in avant-garde theater, and was both comrade of and critical outsider to the Surrealists. Exist Otherwise is the first work in English to the tell the full story of Claude Cahun's art and life, one that celebrates and makes accessible Cahun's remarkable vision. Jennifer L. Shaw embeds Cahun within the exciting social and artistic milieu of Paris between the wars. She examines her relationship with Marcel Moore--Cahun's stepsister, lover, and life partner--who was a central collaborator helping make some of the most compelling photographs and photomontages of Cahun's oeuvre, dreamscapes of disassembled portraiture and scenes that simultaneously fascinate and terrify. Shaw follows Cahun into the horrors of World War II and the Nazi occupation of the island of Jersey off the coast of Normandy, and she explores the powerful and dangerous ways Cahun resisted it. Reading through her letters and diaries, Shaw brings Cahun's ideas and feelings to the foreground, offering an intimate look at how she thought about photography, surrealism, the histories of women artists, and queer culture. Offering some of Cahun's writings never before translated into English alongside a wide array of her artworks and those of her contemporaries, this book is a must-have for any fan of this iconic artist or anyone interested in this crucial period in artistic and cultural history.
Author : Claude Cahun,Jersey Heritage Trust
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art, French
ISBN : 1597110256
Edited by Louise Downie. Essays by James Stevenson, Katharine Conley, Gen Doy, Claire Follain, Tirza True Latimer, Jennifer Shaw and Kristine von Oehsen.
Author : Claude Cahun
Publisher : Tate Publishing(UK)
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124005393
By making this lost masterpiece of Surrealist literature available to an English-speaking readership, this publication will bring further recognition to a seminal and previously underrated figure in 20th century art and literature.
Author : Gen Doy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000213430
This is the first single-authored book in English on the photographer Claude Cahun, whose work was rediscovered in the 1980s. Doy moves beyond standard postmodern approaches, instead repositioning the artist, born Lucy Schwob, in the context of the turbulent times in which she lived and seeing the photographs as part of Cahun's wider life as an artist and writer, a woman and lesbian and as a political activist in the early twentieth century. Doy rethinks Cahun's approach to dress and masquerade, looking at the images in light of the situation of women at the time and within the prevailing 'beauty' culture. Addressing Cahun's ambivalent relationship with Symbolism and later relationship with Surrealism, this highly readable book also looks at Cahun's unusual approach to the domestic object.
Author : Gavin James Bower
Publisher : Zero Books
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781780990453
Claude Cahun is the most important artist you've never heard of - until now. Writer, photographer, lesbian; revolutionary activist, surrealist, resistance fighter - Cahun witnessed the birth of the Paris avant-garde, lived through two World Wars and, as 'Der Soldat ohne Namen', risked death by inciting mutiny on Nazi-occupied Jersey. And yet, she's until recently been merely a peripheral figure in these world-shaping events, relegated by academics to the footnotes in the history of art, sexual politics and revolutionary movements of the last century. Now more so than ever, Cahun demands a significant presence in the history of surrealism and the avant-garde - even, in the literary canon of early twentieth-century literature. Indeed her one major book, Disavowals, is a masterpiece of anti-memoir writing. Much has been made of her as a photographer, but Claude Cahun 'the writer' was one of the most radical and prescient leftists of the century. At a time when her star is rising like never before Claude Cahun: The Soldier With No Name represents the first explicit attempt in English to posit Cahun as an important figure in her own right, and to popularise one of the most prescient and influential artists of her generation. ,
Author : Jeffrey H. Jackson
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781643752051
"The true story of an audacious resistance campaign undertaken by an unlikely pair: two French women -- Lucy Schwob and Suzanne Malherbe -- who drew on their skills as Parisian avant-garde artists to write and distribute wicked insults against Hitler and calls to desert, a PSYOPs tactic known as "paper bullets," designed to demoralize Nazi troops occupying their adopted home of Jersey in the British Channel Islands"--
Author : JenniferL. Shaw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351552257
The first monograph on a Surrealist cult classic, Reading Claude Cahun's Disavowals offers a comprehensive account of Cahun's most important published work, Aveux non avenus (Disavowals), 1930. Jennifer L. Shaw provides an encompassing interpretation of this groundbreaking work, paying careful attention to the complex interrelationship between the photomontages and writings of Aveux non avenus. This study argues that the texts and images of Aveux non avenus not only explore Cahun's own subjectivity, they formulate a trenchant social and cultural critique. Shaw explores how Cahun's work both calls into question the dominant culture of interwar France - with its traditional gender roles, religious conservatism, and pronatalism - and takes to task the era's artistic avant-garde and in particular its models of desire. This volume cuts across the disciplinary boundaries of interwar art studies, demonstrating how one artist's personal exploration intervened in wider contemporary debates about the purpose of art, the role of women in French culture, and the status of homosexuality, in the aftermath of World War I.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Majaro Publications
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780956285935
Author : JenniferL. Shaw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351552240
The first monograph on a Surrealist cult classic, Reading Claude Cahun's Disavowals offers a comprehensive account of Cahun's most important published work, Aveux non avenus (Disavowals), 1930. Jennifer L. Shaw provides an encompassing interpretation of this groundbreaking work, paying careful attention to the complex interrelationship between the photomontages and writings of Aveux non avenus. This study argues that the texts and images of Aveux non avenus not only explore Cahun's own subjectivity, they formulate a trenchant social and cultural critique. Shaw explores how Cahun's work both calls into question the dominant culture of interwar France - with its traditional gender roles, religious conservatism, and pronatalism - and takes to task the era's artistic avant-garde and in particular its models of desire. This volume cuts across the disciplinary boundaries of interwar art studies, demonstrating how one artist's personal exploration intervened in wider contemporary debates about the purpose of art, the role of women in French culture, and the status of homosexuality, in the aftermath of World War I.
Author : Francois Leperlier
Publisher : Verso
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1999-11-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1859848281
A talented writer and especially photographer, Claude Cahun (1894-1954) was often mistaken for a man and was thought to have died as a resistance activist during World War II. Her work has been rediscovered recently and exhibited in London, New York, and Paris. Exploring every aspect of bisexuality and androgyny, Cahun's photography has a powerful contemporary resonance. 100 photos.
Author : Sherry Wiggins,Cydney Payton,Claude Cahun
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578835878
THE UNKNOWN HEROINE is a limited edition artists' book made by conceptual artist Sherry Wiggins in collaboration with photographer Luís Filipe Branco. The book is comprised of text and images that are based on Wiggins's interaction with French photographer and writer Claude Cahun's essay "THE ESSENTIAL WIFE or the the Unknown Princess." The book includes this essay by Claude Cahun as well as an essay by curator and writer Cydney Payton.
Author : Rupert Thomson
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590519141
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, The Observer, PopMatters, and Sydney Morning Herald. The true story of a love affair between two extraordinary women becomes a literary tour deforce in this novel that recreates the surrealist movement in Paris and the horrors of the two world wars with a singular incandescence and intimacy. In the years preceding World War I, two young women meet, by chance, in a provincial town in France. Suzanne Malherbe, a shy seventeen-year-old with a talent for drawing, is completely entranced by the brilliant but troubled Lucie Schwob, who comes from a family of wealthy Jewish intellectuals. They embark on a clandestine love affair, terrified they will be discovered, but then, in an astonishing twist of fate, the mother of one marries the father of the other. As “sisters” they are finally free of suspicion, and, hungry for a more stimulating milieu, they move to Paris at a moment when art, literature, and politics blend in an explosive cocktail. Having reinvented themselves as Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, they move in the most glamorous social circles, meeting everyone from Hemingway and Dalí to André Breton, and produce provocative photographs that still seem avant-garde today. In the 1930s, with the rise of anti-Semitism and threat of fascism, they leave Paris for Jersey, and it is on this idyllic island that they confront their destiny, creating a campaign of propaganda against Hitler’s occupying forces that will put their lives in jeopardy. Brilliantly imagined, profoundly thought-provoking, and ultimately heartbreaking, Never Anyone But You infuses life into a forgotten history as only great literature can.
Author : Whitney Chadwick,Tirza True Latimer
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 0813532922
Between the two world wars, Paris served as the setting for unparalleled freedom for expatriate as well as native-born French women, who enjoyed unprecedented access to education and opportunities to participate in public, artistic and intellectual life. Many of these women--including Colette, Tamara de Lempicka, Sonia Delaunay, Djuna Barnes, Augusta Savage, and Lee Miller--made lasting contributions to art and literature.
Author : Ruth E Iskin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781317275046
Re-envisioning the Contemporary Art Canon: Perspectives in a Global World seeks to dissect and interrogate the nature of the present-day art field, which has experienced dramatic shifts in the past 50 years. In discussions of the canon of art history, the notion of ‘inclusiveness’, both at the level of rhetoric and as a desired practice is on the rise and gradually replacing talk of ‘exclusion’, which dominated critiques of the canon up until two decades ago. The art field has dramatically, if insufficiently, changed in the half-century since the first protests and critiques of the exclusion of ‘others’ from the art canon. With increased globalization and shifting geopolitics, the art field is expanding beyond its Euro-American focus, as is particularly evident in the large-scale international biennales now held all over the globe. Are canons and counter-canons still relevant? Can they be re-envisioned rather than merely revised? Following an introduction that discusses these issues, thirteen newly commissioned essays present case studies of consecration in the contemporary art field, and three commissioned discussions present diverse positions on issues of the canon and consecration processes today. This volume will be of interest to instructors and students of contemporary art, art history, and museum and curatorial studies.
