MPC 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 34: Ydessa Hendeles, Claude Cahun, Cindy Sherman
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Claude cahun a french photographer, writer and sculptor, who was involved in the surrealist movement. She changed her name from her real name, lucy schwob. In her early self-portraits she has shaved hair and mannish clothes, such as this self-portrait. She created self-portraits that played with the notion of a fixed identity and gender. She dressed up as various characters such as a weight-lifter, aviator, dandy and doll, and photographed herself in a theatrical style. She created personas that confronted contemporary ideas of femininity. Later, cindy sherman adopted a similar strategy. Oppenheim, like louise bourgeios, (work at ydessa hendeles) Created work that was linked to unconscious. Surrealist were interested in accessing that region that freud theorized, as they thought, like the primitivist painters, that this was where true reality lay. Surrealists were similar to earlier 19th c movements, such as.
