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Active Political Agent
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beauty culture
Cahun's photographs
Cahun's Work
Cahun’s photographs
Cahun’s Work
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Claude Cahun
CP Commentary
early twentieth-century activism
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Feet Rest
feminist art history
Fishnet Stocking
gender identity studies
gender performance in photography
Krafft Ebing
lesbian visual culture
Liane De Pougy
Lise Deharme
Loose Fabrics
Lucie Delarue Mardrus
Lucy Schwob
Marcel Moore
Marcel Schwob
Napoleon III
photographic self-representation
queer modernism
Quilting Point
Richard Von Krafft Ebing
Roll Top Desk
Sailor Suits
sensual politics
Surrealism
Surrealist Exhibition
Suzanne Malherbe
Symbolism
Toni Frissell
Turn Ups
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781845115517
- Weight: 420g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 20 Dec 2007
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This is the first single-authored book in English on the photographer Claude Cahun, whose work was rediscovered in the 1980s. Doy moves beyond standard postmodern approaches, instead repositioning the artist, born Lucy Schwob, in the context of the turbulent times in which she lived and seeing the photographs as part of Cahun's wider life as an artist and writer, a woman and lesbian and as a political activist in the early twentieth century. Doy rethinks Cahun's approach to dress and masquerade, looking at the images in light of the situation of women at the time and within the prevailing 'beauty' culture. Addressing Cahun's ambivalent relationship with Symbolism and later relationship with Surrealism, this highly readable book also looks at Cahun's unusual approach to the domestic object.
Doy is Lecturer in.at De Montfot University. She is the author of 'Picturing the Self', 'Drapery' and 'Black Visual Culture' (all I.B.Tauris).
