Reading Claude Cahun S Disavowals

Author : JenniferL. Shaw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351552257

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Reading Claude Cahun's Disavowals by JenniferL. Shaw Pdf

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 : Jennifer Laurie Shaw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Surrealism
ISBN : 1351552236

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Reading Claude Cahun's Disavowals by Jennifer Laurie Shaw Pdf

Author : Claude Cahun
Publisher : Tate Publishing(UK)
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124005393

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Disavowals Or Cancelled Confessions by Claude Cahun Pdf

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 : JenniferL. Shaw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351552240

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Reading Claude Cahun's Disavowals by JenniferL. Shaw Pdf

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 : Sarah Howgate,Dawn Ades,National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain)
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691176628

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Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun by Sarah Howgate,Dawn Ades,National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) Pdf

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 : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 178914700X

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Exist Otherwise by Jennifer L. Shaw Pdf

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 : Gavin James Bower
Publisher : Zero Books
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781780990453

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Claude Cahun by Gavin James Bower Pdf

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 : Sherry Wiggins,Cydney Payton,Claude Cahun
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578835878

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The Unknown Heroine by Sherry Wiggins,Cydney Payton,Claude Cahun Pdf

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 : Gen Doy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000213430

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Claude Cahun by Gen Doy Pdf

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 : Claude Cahun,Jersey Heritage Trust
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art, French
ISBN : 1597110256

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Don't Kiss Me by Claude Cahun,Jersey Heritage Trust Pdf

Edited by Louise Downie. Essays by James Stevenson, Katharine Conley, Gen Doy, Claire Follain, Tirza True Latimer, Jennifer Shaw and Kristine von Oehsen.

Author : Abdel Bari Atwan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520255615

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The Secret History of Al Qaeda by Abdel Bari Atwan Pdf

Drawing on unparalleled access to Osama bin Laden and his key associates, journalist Abdel Bari Atwan gives an incisive and timely account of the rise of the notorious terrorist organization, al Qaeda.

Author : Jeffrey H. Jackson
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781643752051

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Paper Bullets by Jeffrey H. Jackson Pdf

"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 : Ruth E Iskin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781317275046

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Re-envisioning the Contemporary Art Canon by Ruth E Iskin Pdf

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.

Author : Whitney Scharer
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316524094

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The Age of Light by Whitney Scharer Pdf

One of the Best Books of the Year: Parade, Glamour, Real Simple, Refinery29, Yahoo! Lifestyle. "A startlingly modern love story and a mesmerizing portrait of a woman's self-transformation from muse to artist." --Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere "I'd rather take a photograph than be one," Lee Miller declares after she arrives in Paris in 1929, where she soon catches the eye of the famous Surrealist Man Ray. Though he wants to use her only as a model, Lee convinces him to take her on as his assistant and teach her everything he knows. As they work together in the darkroom, their personal and professional lives become intimately entwined, changing the course of Lee's life forever. Lee's journey of self-discovery takes took her from the cabarets of bohemian Paris to the battlefields of war-torn Europe during WWII, from inventing radical new photography techniques to documenting the liberation of the concentration camps as one of the first female war correspondents. Through it all, Lee must grapple with the question of whether it's possible to stay true to herself while also fulfilling her artistic ambition--and what she will have to sacrifice to do so.

Author : JuliaK. Dabbs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351560221

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Life Stories of Women Artists, 1550-1800 by JuliaK. Dabbs Pdf

The struggles and achievements of forty-six notable women artists of the early modern period, as documented by their contemporaries, are uniquely brought together in this anthology. The life stories presented here are foundational texts for the history of art, but since most are found only in rare volumes and few have been translated into English, until now they have been generally inaccessible to many scholars. Originally published in biographical compendia such as Vasari's Lives of the Artists, the writings included here document not only the lives of relatively well known women artists such as Artemisia Gentileschi and Sofonisba Anguissola, but also those who have languished in obscurity, like Anna Waser and Li Yin. Each life story is preceded by a brief introduction to the artist as well as to her biographer, and the texts themselves are annotated to provide necessary clarification. Beyond their documentary value, these stories provide fascinating insight as to how men commonly characterized women artists as exceptions to their sex, and attempted to explain their presence in the male-dominated realm of art. The introductory chapter to the book explores this intriguing gender dynamic and elucidates some of the strategies and historical context that factored into the composition of these lives. The volume includes an appended index to women artists' life stories in biographical compendia of the period