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Marcel Moore (born Suzanne Alberte Malherbe, 19 July 1892 – 19 February 1972) was a French illustrator, designer, and photographer. She, along with her romantic and creative partner Claude Cahun , was a surrealist writer and photographer.
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. Claude Cahun is not the most well-known name among surrealist artists. This is remarkable because her non-binary perspective gives an original take on surrealism.
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Partner. Marcel Moore (1909–1954) [1] Claude Cahun ( French pronunciation: [klod ka.œ̃], born Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob; [2] 25 October 1894 – 8 December 1954) was a French surrealist photographer, sculptor, and writer. [3] Schwob adopted the pseudonym Claude Cahun in 1914. [4] Cahun is best known as a writer and self-portraitist, who ...
Jun 19, 2019 · “It was not just a pen name,” said Jennifer L. Shaw, an art history professor at Sonoma State University in California and the author of a biography of Cahun. And yet Cahun and Moore usually ...
Nov 4, 2020 · The story of how the artists Lucy Schwob and Suzanne Malherbe—better known by their alter egos Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore—outfoxed the German invaders of the British Channel island of...
Follow Claude Cahun and their partner Marcel Moore from their deconstruction of gender norms in the 1920s through Cahun's dangerous acts of resistance during the Nazi occupation of the island of Jersey.
Cahun is best known for striking photographic self-portraits, yet these personal images were often produced collaboratively with Marcel Moore, Cahun’s lifelong creative and romantic partner.
