Exist Otherwise: The Life and Works of Claude Cahun

Offering some of Cahun's writings never before translated into English alongside a wide array of her artworks...
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Author: Jennifer L. Shaw
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Exist Otherwise: The Life and Works of Claude Cahun by Shaw, Jennifer L.

Exist Otherwise: The Life and Works of Claude Cahun

$118.93

Exist Otherwise: The Life and Works of Claude Cahun

$118.93
Author: Jennifer L. Shaw
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Offering some of Cahun's writings never before translated into English alongside a wide array of her artworks and those of her contemporaries, this book is a must-have for any fan of this iconic artist, now in paperback.

In the turmoil of the 1920s and '30s, Claude Cahun challenged gender stereotypes with her powerful photographs, montages, and writings, works that appear to our twenty-first-century eyes as utterly contemporary, or even from the future. She wrote poetry and prose for major French literary magazines, worked in avant-garde theater, and was both comrade of and critical outsider to the Surrealists. Exist Otherwise is the first work in English to the tell the full story of Claude Cahun's art and life, one that celebrates and makes accessible Cahun's remarkable vision.

Jennifer L. Shaw embeds Cahun within the exciting social and artistic milieu of Paris between the wars. She examines her relationship with Marcel Moore--Cahun's stepsister, lover, and life partner--who was a central collaborator helping make some of the most compelling photographs and photomontages of Cahun's oeuvre, dreamscapes of disassembled portraiture and scenes that simultaneously fascinate and terrify. Shaw follows Cahun into the horrors of World War II and the Nazi occupation of the island of Jersey off the coast of Normandy, and she explores the powerful and dangerous ways Cahun resisted it. Reading through her letters and diaries, Shaw brings Cahun's ideas and feelings to the foreground, offering an intimate look at how she thought about photography, surrealism, the histories of women artists, and queer culture.



Author: Jennifer L. Shaw
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 06/15/2017
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.85lbs
Size: 9.90h x 7.80w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781780237282


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 07/01/2017 pg. 78
Choice 12/01/2017

About the Author
Jennifer L. Shaw is professor of art history at Sonoma State University in California. She is the author of Reading Claude Cahun's Disavowels and Dream States: Puvis de Chavannes, Modernism, and the Fantasy of France.

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