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

Title
Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun : behind the mask, another mask / Sarah Howgate ; with an essay by Dawn Ades and an interview with Gillian Wearing.
Publication
  • London, [England] : National Portrait Gallery Publications ; Princeton, [New Jersey] : Princeton University Press, [2017]
  • ©2017

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Additional Authors
  • Cahun, Claude, 1894-1954.
  • Wearing, Gillian, 1963-
  • Howgate, Sarah
  • Ades, Dawn
  • National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain), host institution, publisher, issuing body
  • Princeton University Press, publisher
Description
208 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits; 26 cm
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."
Alternative Title
Behind the mask, another mask
Subject
  • Cahun, Claude, 1894-1954 > Exhibitions
  • Cahun, Claude, 1894-1954 > Influence
  • Cahun, Claude, 1894-1954 > Self-portraits
  • Wearing, Gillian, 1963- > Exhibitions
  • Wearing, Gillian, 1963- > Interviews
  • Wearing, Gillian, 1963- > Self-portraits
  • Cahun, Claude, 1894-1954
  • Wearing, Gillian, 1963-
  • 1900-2099
  • Art, French > 20th century > Exhibitions
  • Art, British > 20th century > Exhibitions
  • Art, British > 21st century > Exhibitions
  • Art, Modern > 20th century > Exhibitions
  • Art, Modern > 21st century > Exhibitions
  • Photography > Great Britain > 20th century > Exhibitions
  • Photography > Great Britain > 21st century > Exhibitions
  • Self-portraits > Exhibitions
  • Art, British
  • Art, French
  • Art, Modern
  • Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
  • Photography
  • Self-portraits
  • Great Britain
Genre/Form
  • Exhibition catalogs.
  • Interviews.
  • Photobooks.
  • Self-portraits.
Note
  • Published to accompany an exhibition held at the National Portrait Gallery, London, 9 March-29 May 2017.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (page 201) and index.
Language (note)
  • Text in English.
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.
Call Number
JQF 17-1355
ISBN
  • 9781855147508
  • 1855147505
  • 9780691176628
  • 0691176620
LCCN
2016952312
OCLC
975485342
Title
Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun : behind the mask, another mask / Sarah Howgate ; with an essay by Dawn Ades and an interview with Gillian Wearing.
Publisher
London, [England] : National Portrait Gallery Publications ; Princeton, [New Jersey] : Princeton University Press, [2017]
Copyright Date
©2017
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (page 201) and index.
Event
"Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun: Behind the mask, another mask" : March 9-May 29, 2017, National Portrait Gallery, London, England, United Kingdom.
Language
Text in English.
Chronological Term
1900-2099
Place of Publication
United Kingdom England London.
United States New Jersey Princeton.
Added Author
Cahun, Claude, 1894-1954. Works. Selections.
Wearing, Gillian, 1963- Works. Selections.
Wearing, Gillian, 1963- artist, interviewee.
Howgate, Sarah, organizer, interviewer, writer of added commentary.
Ades, Dawn, writer of added commentary.
National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain), host institution, publisher, issuing body.
Princeton University Press, publisher.
Research Call Number
JQF 17-1355
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