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Exist Otherwise: The Life and Works of Claude Cahun
Jenniferl. Shaw
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Description for Exist Otherwise: The Life and Works of Claude Cahun
Hardback. This is the first work in English to tell the full story of Claude Cahun's art and life. It both recounts her life and analyzes her complex writings and images, making them available to a wide audience. Num Pages: 256 pages, 180 illustrations, 100 in colour. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJ; ACX; AGB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 250 x 190. .
In the turmoil of the 1920s and '30s, Claude Cahun challenged gender stereotypes with her powerful photographs, photomontages and writings: work that appears contemporary, or even ahead of our time, when viewed with twenty-first-century eyes. Cahun wrote poetry and prose for major French literary magazines, worked in avant-garde theatre, and was both comrade and critical outsider of the Surrealists. Her artful resistance tactics mocked and disrupted the Nazi occupiers of Jersey during the Second World War, putting her in mortal danger. Cahun worked collaboratively with Marcel Moore, her stepsister, lover and life partner, to create some of the most compelling ... Read more
In the turmoil of the 1920s and '30s, Claude Cahun challenged gender stereotypes with her powerful photographs, photomontages and writings: work that appears contemporary, or even ahead of our time, when viewed with twenty-first-century eyes. Cahun wrote poetry and prose for major French literary magazines, worked in avant-garde theatre, and was both comrade and critical outsider of the Surrealists. Her artful resistance tactics mocked and disrupted the Nazi occupiers of Jersey during the Second World War, putting her in mortal danger. Cahun worked collaboratively with Marcel Moore, her stepsister, lover and life partner, to create some of the most compelling ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
1260g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780237282
SKU
V9781780237282
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About Jenniferl. Shaw
Jennifer L. Shaw is Professor of Art History at Sonoma State University, California. Her previous books include Reading Claude Cahun's Disavowals (2013) and Dream States: Puvis de Chavannes, Modernism and the Fantasy of France (2002).
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