Que Me Veux-tu?: Claude Cahun's Photomontages

Que Me Veux-tu?: Claude Cahun's Photomontages PDF Author:
Publisher: Majaro Publications
ISBN: 0956285937
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Languages : en
Pages : 111

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Que Me Veux-tu?: Claude Cahun's Photomontages

Que Me Veux-tu?: Claude Cahun's Photomontages PDF Author:
Publisher: Majaro Publications
ISBN: 0956285937
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 111

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Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun

Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun PDF Author: Sarah Howgate
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691176620
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Published to accompany an exhibition held at the National Portrait Gallery, London, 9 March-29 May 2017

Claude Cahun

Claude Cahun PDF Author: Gen Doy
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000213439
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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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.

The Unknown Heroine

The Unknown Heroine PDF Author: Sherry Wiggins
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578835877
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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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.

Disavowals Or Cancelled Confessions

Disavowals Or Cancelled Confessions PDF Author: Claude Cahun
Publisher: Tate Publishing(UK)
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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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.

Surrealism

Surrealism PDF Author: Natalya Lusty
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108851614
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 768

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This book examines the salient ideas and practices that have shaped Surrealism as a protean intellectual and cultural concept that fundamentally shifted our understanding of the nexus between art, culture, and politics. By bringing a diverse set of artistic forms and practices such as literature, manifestos, collage, photography, film, fashion, display, and collecting into conversation with newly emerging intellectual traditions (ethnography, modern science, anthropology, and psychoanalysis), the essays in this volume reveal Surrealism's enduring influence on contemporary thought and culture alongside its anti-colonial political position and international reach. Surrealism's fascination with novel forms of cultural production and experimental methods contributed to its conceptual malleability and temporal durability, making it one of the most significant avant-garde movements of the twentieth century. The book traces how Surrealism's urgent political and aesthetic provocations have bequeathed an important legacy for recent scholarly interest in thing theory, critical vitalism, new materialism, ontology, and animal/human studies.

Don't Kiss Me

Don't Kiss Me PDF Author: Claude Cahun
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781597110259
Category : Art, French
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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

Reading Claude Cahun's Disavowals

Reading Claude Cahun's Disavowals PDF Author: JenniferL. Shaw
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351552252
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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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.

Surrealist women's writing

Surrealist women's writing PDF Author: Anna Watz
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526132044
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Surrealist women’s writing: A critical exploration is the first sustained critical inquiry into the writing of women associated with surrealism. Featuring original essays by leading scholars of surrealism, the volume demonstrates the extent and the historical, linguistic, and culturally contextual breadth of this writing. It also highlights how the specifically surrealist poetics and politics of these writers’ work intersect with and contribute to contemporary debates on, for example, gender, sexuality, subjectivity, otherness, anthropocentrism, and the environment. Drawing on a variety of innovative theoretical approaches, the essays in the volume focus on the writing of numerous women surrealists, many of whom have hitherto mainly been known for their visual rather than their literary production. These include Claude Cahun, Leonora Carrington, Kay Sage, Colette Peignot, Suzanne Césaire, Unica Zürn, Ithell Colquhoun, Leonor Fini, Dorothea Tanning, and Rikki Ducornet.

Queer Methodology for Photography

Queer Methodology for Photography PDF Author: Asa Johannesson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1003846254
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 199

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This book presents new ways of approaching photographic discourse from a queer perspective, offering discussions on what a queering methodology for photography may entail by drawing links between artistic strategies in photographic practice and key theoretical concepts from photography theory, queer theory, critical theory, and philosophy. With different examples of conceptual perspectives, including representation, formalism, and mediumlessness, it seeks to diversify queer methodology for photography. While primarily addressing photography, this book is entwined with broader philosophical questions concerning identity, difference, and the creations of systems of thought that limit the possibilities of existence to binary categorisation. It proposes a new concept of the photographic image that addresses its materiality, in the form of the poetic and the political, in relationship to a generative principle that is named as a queer quality: the photograph’s ability to voice queer concerns also beyond its role as representation. This book will be of interest to scholars working in photography, art history, queer studies, new materialism, and posthumanism.