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On the cover of Aperture’s “On Feminism” issue is a photograph by Gillian Wearing, who recreated a 1927 self-portrait by the French writer and artist Claude Cahun.Rediscovered in the 1990s, Cahun was known for her gender bending, theatrical photography. “Wearing, like Cahun, conceives of gender as multivalent,” Jennifer Blessing writes in an introduction to a portfolio of Wearing’s.

This essay will outline the ways in which my two films, Magic Mirror (2013) and Confessions to the Mirror (2016) manifest the characteristics of the intermedial. Through the re-imagining of photographs by the Surrealist artist Claude Cahun alongside voices from her writing, the films create an interstitial space between photography and film.

This essay is a contribution to the first major publication in English devoted to the work of Claude Cahun and her partner Marcel Moore, based on the archives of The Jersey Heritage Trust. My essay goes beyond the usual approach to Cahun’s work which has concentrated on notions of masquerade and femininity, almost to the exclusion of other.

Claude Cahun was a Surrealist photographer whose work explored gender identity and the subconscious mind. View Claude Cahun’s 90 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. See available photographs, prints and multiples, and sculpture for sale and learn about the artist.

Gwen John, Madeline Green and Claude Cahun were artists with distinct practices, but in the years between 1895 and 1930, each used costume to experiment with different visual identities. The artists’ performative practices were, and remain, a radical intervention into the relationship between fashion, appearance and gender.

What has a lobster got in common with a telephone? Now you know a little more about surrealism, what do you think? Which surrealist artist is your favourite? What unexpected things would you put together? How about drawing a tree wearing a scarf or a squirrel with a monocle.

Claude Cahun was the French artist and a founding member of the Surrealist Group, the “Contre-Attaque.” She along with her stepsister, Marcel Moore created some anti-Nazi flyers to oppose Hitler and distributed them among the people. She created many performative and proto-feminist photographs, most of which were self-portraits.

Claude Cahun, born Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob, was a French photographer and writer. Schwob adopted the gender-ambiguous name Claude Cahun in 1917 and is best known for self-portraits, in which they assumed a variety of personae. Cahun's work was both political and personal, undermined traditional concepts of static gender roles.

This thesis probes the photographic oeuvre of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore and their interpretation of Freudian fetishism. Cahun and Moore rework Freud’s theory to disrupt and invalidate various symbols conventionally associated with sexual difference, examining social, fictional, and historical dimensions of gendering and the shift that occurs when their parameters disintegrate. The first.

CLAUDE CAHUN, MARCEL MOORE, AND THE COLLAPSE OF “SURREALIST PHOTOGRAPHY” By Elizabeth Ann Driscoll Smith B.A., University of Louisville, 2010 A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences of the University of Louisville in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts.

The queen of the photographic self-portrait, Claude Cahun was also a poet, essayist, critic, translator, actor, and political activist. She used a wide variety of means of expression to convey her obsession for the themes of identity and self-image. Although she was forgotten after World.

Entre Nous: Between Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore Tirza True Latimer (bio) In the mid-1990s, images of the surrealist Claude Cahun crossed the Atlantic from France to the United States, where her edgy portraiture captured the imagination of new audiences.