Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun Politics ISBN 979-10-95991-23-6

ISBN 979-10-95991-23-6

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Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun Politics ISBN 979-10-95991-23-6National 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,