Claude Cahun : a sensual politics of photography /
Gen Doy.
Bok Engelsk 2007 Gen. Doy,· Electronic books.
| Utgitt | London ; New York : New York : : I.B. Tauris ; : In the United States distributed by Palgrave Macmillan, , 2007.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (223 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; A Brief Chronology; Introduction; 1. Medusa and Her Sisters; 2. Masks, Masqerades and Mirrors; 3. Love, Politics and What She Wore; 4. Politics and Its Objects; Afterword; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index. - The first full-length title in English on the celebrated photographer Claude Cahun whose work was rediscovered in the 1980's. This lively and original book looks at Cahun and her oeuvre in the contexts of the turbulent times in which she lived. Surveying standard postmodernist approaches to Cahun, born Lucy Schwob, Doy goes further, positioning her photographs as part of her life as a woman, lesbian and political activist in the early twentieth century. She considers Cahun's relationships with Symbolism and then Surrealism and her approach to dress and masquerade, assessing the i
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| Emner | Cahun, Claude, , 1894-1954 - Criticism and interpretation.
Photography - Criticism and interpretation. |
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| ISBN | 0-85771-143-1. - 1-000-21177-0. - 1-282-61885-7. - 1-4416-2912-2. - 600-00-2110-0. - 9786612618857
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