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The first monograph on a groundbreaking Surrealist masterpiece, Reading Claude Cahun's Disavowals offers a comprehensive account of Cahun's most important published work, Aveux non avenus (Disavowals), 1930. Jennifer L. Shaw provides an encompassing interpretation of this groundbreaking work, paying careful attention to the complex interrelationship between the photomontages and writings of Aveux non avenus.This study argues that the texts and images of Aveux non avenus not only explore Cahun's own subjectivity, they formulate a trenchant social and cultural critique. Shaw explores how Cahun's work both calls into question the dominant culture of interwar France - with its traditional gender roles, religious conservatism, and pronatalism - and takes to task the era's artistic avant-garde and in particular its models of desire. This volume cuts across the disciplinary boundaries of interwar art studies, demonstrating how one artist's personal exploration intervened in wider contemporary debates about the purpose of art, the role of women in French culture, and the status of homosexuality, in the aftermath of World War I.

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Book category Książki po angielsku The arts Photography & photographs Photographs: collections

• Full title: Reading Claude Cahun's Disavowals
• Author: Jennifer L. Shaw
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 246
• EAN: 9781409407874
• ISBN: 140940787X
• ID: 04782263
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Weight: 568 g
• Dimensions: 183 × 253 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 20. December 2013

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