Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun Politics François Aubart

François Aubart

We capture the fear and the struggle of losing one’s memory

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américaine et japonaise

Ana Núñez Rodríguez

Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun Politics François AubartNational Portrait Gallery This book draws together for the first time the self portraits of French Surrealist artist Claude Cahun (18941954) and British contemporary artist Gillian Wearing (b. 1963). Although they lived almost one hundred years apart, their work shares similar themes: gender, identity, masquerade and performance. Beginning with a visit to Jersey, where Cahun lived and worked until her death, and where the Cahun archive is housed,