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Jun 15, 2017 · As a Jewish, gender-nonconforming artist living amid the rise of fascism and widespread anti-semitism, Cahun’s artwork challenged social norms of the time. The new book Exist Otherwise: The Life and Works of Claude Cahun , out today from Reaktion Books, features her photographs, sculptures, and illustrations along with diary entries and ...
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.
Two images, one titled “La Nuit moderne” and the other titled “La Lumiere antique” depict pairs of genderambiguous lovers. The latter, a classically rendered but somewhat feminized man 53 Fig. 1. Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, Untitled (Cahun with mirror image) (c. 1928), photograph. Courtesy of the Jersey Heritage Trust Foundation.
Apr 26, 2022 · A 2012 exhibition of Claude Cahun’s artwork at the Palau de la Virreina in Barcelona; Kippelboy, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Although Cahun had been fascinated with shooting and self-portraiture from the age of 12, it wasn’t until the 1920s that she started to explore actively with the technique, producing some of the most captivating and iconic photos.
Jun 15, 2006 · Cahun (a pseudonym for Lucy Schwob) and Marcel Moore (Suzanne Malherbe, 1892-1972) were an extraordinary couple who worked and lived together for more than 40 years. Avid participants in the cultural avant-garde in Montparnasse during the 1920s and 30s, they ultimately moved to Jersey, in the Channel Islands, the only part of Great Britain to ...
Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore shared an artistic collaboration that produced some of the most original images and literary works to be associated with Surrealism. This book examines their lives; their theatrical, literary and performance activities; and their relationship with the Surrealist movement.
Jun 15, 2006 · Cahun (a pseudonym for Lucy Schwob) and Marcel Moore (Suzanne Malherbe, 1892-1972) were an extraordinary couple who worked and lived together for more than 40 years. Avid participants in the cultural avant-garde in Montparnasse during the 1920s and 30s, they ultimately moved to Jersey, in the Channel Islands, the only part of Great Britain to ...
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