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Claude Cahun (French pronunciation: [klod ka.œ̃], born Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob; 25 October 1894 – 8 December 1954) was a French surrealist photographer, sculptor, and writer. Schwob adopted the pseudonym Claude Cahun in 1914. Cahun is best known as a writer and self-portraitist, who assumed a variety of performative personae.
Jun 16, 2020 · Claude Cahun was a surrealist, photographer, sculptor, and activist. She is best known for her gender-fluidity in art, and her anti-Nazi resistance. Jun 16, 2020 • By Jacqueline Martinez, BA English Writing.
Claude Cahun (French pronunciation: [klod ka.œ̃], born Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob; 25 October 1894 – 8 December 1954) was a French surrealist photographer, sculptor, and writer. Schwob adopted the pseudonym Claude Cahun in 1914. Cahun is best known as a writer and self-portraitist, who assumed a variety of performative personae.
French Photographer, Writer, and Political Activist. Born: October 25, 1894 - Nantes, France. Died: December 8, 1954 - St Helier, Jersey, Great Britain. Movements and Styles: Modern Photography. , Dada. , Surrealism. , Identity Art and Identity Politics. , Photomontage. , Collage. , Proto-Feminist Artists. "Under this mask, another mask.
Jun 19, 2019 · Overlooked No More: Claude Cahun, Whose Photographs Explored Gender and Sexuality - The New York Times. Society generally considered women to be women and men to be men in early-20th-century...
May 8, 2024 · Claude Cahun was a French writer, photographer, Surrealist, and performance artist who was largely written out of art history until the late 1980s, when her photographs were included in an exhibition of Surrealist photography in 1986. She is known for her self-portraits that portray her as.
Jul 6, 2023 · A French leader in the surrealist movement, Claude Cahun was a pioneering queer artist whose self-portraits played with gender identity in a way that had never been seen before. Flickr Self Portrait from the series I Am In Training Don’t Kiss Me, 1927. Photographer, essayist, mixed-media artist, performer, activist, and Nazi resistor.
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