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Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun : behind the mask, another mask /

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Publisher: London [England] : National Portrait Gallery Publications ; Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2017]Description: 208 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 26 cmISBN:

9781855147508
1855147505
9780691176628
0691176620

Other title:

Behind the mask, another mask

Contained works:

Cahun, Claude, 1894-1954. Works. Selections
Wearing, Gillian, 1963- Works. Selections

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LOC classification:

N6797.W39 A4 2017

Contents:

Director's foreword -- Curious spirits / Sarah Howgate -- Transformation -- My polaroid years -- Surrealism -- Transcending time -- Masquerade -- Performance -- Later life and memento mori / Sarah Howgate -- Gillian Wearing in conversation with Sarah Howgate -- Claude Cahun's "self-portraits" / Dawn Ades -- Claude Cahun : Chronology / Tanya Bentley -- Gillian Wearing : Chronology / Tanya Bentley -- Curator's acknowledgements -- Further reading -- Exhibition list and picture credits -- Index.

Summary: "This beautifully illustrated book draws together for the first time the work of French artist and writer Claude Cahun (1894-1954) and British contemporary artist Gillian Wearing (b. 1963) Although they were born almost a century apart, their work shares similar themes - gender, identity, masquerade, and performance. In 2015, Sarah Howgate traveled with Wearing to the island of Jersey, in the English Channel, where Cahun lived and worked until her death, and where her archive is housed, In examining Cahun's photographs, Wearing was struck by the remarkable parallels with her own explorations of the self-image through photography. Cahun was a contemporary of André Breton and Man Ray, but her work was rarely exhibited during her lifetime. Wearing, who has exhibited extensively and is a recipient of Britain's prestigious Turner Prize, was no stranger to Cahun's work when she made the trip to Jersey -- her 2012 self-portrait, 'Me as Cahun holding a mask of my face', is a reconstruction of Cahun's iconic 'Self-portrait' made in 1927. In this book, Howgate examines the work of both artists, investigating how their cultural, historical, political, and personal contexts have affected their interpretations of similar themes." --Publisher's description.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Whitecliffe Library General Shelves	General	N 6797 WEA HOW (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		0015897

Published to accompany an exhibition held at the National Portrait Gallery, London, 9 March-29 May 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This beautifully illustrated book draws together for the first time the work of French artist and writer Claude Cahun (1894-1954) and British contemporary artist Gillian Wearing (b. 1963) Although they were born almost a century apart, their work shares similar themes - gender, identity, masquerade, and performance. In 2015, Sarah Howgate traveled with Wearing to the island of Jersey, in the English Channel, where Cahun lived and worked until her death, and where her archive is housed, In examining Cahun's photographs, Wearing was struck by the remarkable parallels with her own explorations of the self-image through photography. Cahun was a contemporary of André Breton and Man Ray, but her work was rarely exhibited during her lifetime. Wearing, who has exhibited extensively and is a recipient of Britain's prestigious Turner Prize, was no stranger to Cahun's work when she made the trip to Jersey -- her 2012 self-portrait, 'Me as Cahun holding a mask of my face', is a reconstruction of Cahun's iconic 'Self-portrait' made in 1927. In this book, Howgate examines the work of both artists, investigating how their cultural, historical, political, and personal contexts have affected their interpretations of similar themes." --Publisher's description.

Text in English.