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Aug 23, 2022 · Surrealist Claude Cahun's Radical Legacy. Lorna Eriksson is an art historian and writer based in London. She explores emerging themes in modern and contemporary art, especially those relating to social and environmental politics. Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, Untitled (Cahun with mirror image), 1928. Courtesy of the Jersey Heritage Collections.
About. Presented by: Facing Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore bridges generational and geographic divides as contemporary artists respond to the ground-breaking work of Surrealist artists and genderqueer pioneers Claude Cahun (1894–1954) and Marcel Moore (1892–1972). The duo’s photographs from the 1920s and 1930s have made a significant ...
Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore. 5. Dora Carrington. The relationships we share with one another can shape our lives, our work and even history itself. Here are five important queer relationships which influenced the canon of art. 1. Sappho. Sappho and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene is a touching image of female love. The piece is inspired by ...
Jun 22, 2023 · Photographer, writer, and political activist, Claude Cahun was born in 1894 in Nantes, France into an intellectual Jewish family. Named at birth Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob, they later adopted the unisex name – Claude Cahun. Claude Cahun, Self-Portrait, c. 1921, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA.
Jun 15, 2018 · Like Cahun’s photomontages, it looks like life, but it’s not life, exactly. Only art can achieve this degree of realism. Never Anyone But You is published by Corsair. To order a copy for £16. ...
Jun 15, 2006 · In Don't Kiss Me, seven international authors examine Cahun's and Moore's lives and art-making; their theatrical, literary, and performance activities; their relationship with the Surrealist movement; and Cahun's photographic technique. The book also includes the first thorough account of the Resistance operations, trial, imprisonment, and ...
Apr 12, 2024 · Paper Bullets. Paper Bullets is the first book to fully explore the war-time resistance activities of Cahun and Moore, giving extensive details of their Jersey years. In the book, we slip inside the lives of the two artists, Claude Cahun, born Lucy Schwob and Marcel Moore, born Suzanne Malherbe. Born in France, the two were step-siblings and ...
