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Claude Cahun: Cancelled Confessions (or Disavowals) by Claude Cahun (2025, Trade
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- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- ISBN
- 9781938221361
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Siglio Press
ISBN-10
1938221362
ISBN-13
9781938221361
eBay Product ID (ePID)
25078694586
Product Key Features
Book Title
Claude Cahun: Cancelled Confessions (Or Disavowals)
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2025
Topic
Individual Artists / Artists' Books
Illustrator
Moore, Marcel, Yes
Genre
Art
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Weight
40.1 Oz
Item Length
8.8 in
Item Width
6.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Synopsis
Back in print after over a decade: the playful and genre-shattering memoir of a beloved surrealist known for her gender-bending portraiture First published in 1930 by anti-fascist, avant-garde publisher Carrefour in Paris as Aveux non Avenus , Cancelled Confessions (or Disavowals) is Claude Cahun's wildly radical answer to an invitation to write a memoir. It shatters the very premise of the memoir--the singularity of identity--into sharp and prismatic fragments that she reassembles into an ever-mutating inquiry into "self" and the many masks it wears. Using a multitude of forms (fables, jokes, aphorisms, letters, dialogues, hymns, pronouncements, prophecies, etc.), Cahun's admixture of art and life interrogates, meditates and muses on sex, gender, love, fear and numerous other of her preoccupations. Long unavailable and obsessed over, Cancelled Confessions (or Disavowals) was originally published in English by MIT in 2008. The original (and only) English translation returns in a new, revised and redesigned edition, illustrated by large, sumptuous reproductions of the photocollages made in collaboration by Cahun and her partner, Marcel Moore. It also features the original introduction by Pierre Mac Orlan, as well as new essays by Lauren Elkin, Amelia Groom and the translator Susan de Muth. Cancelled Confessions (or Disavowals) is a tour-de-force act of resistance; it provokes the reader to enter the capacious, subversive, playful and deeply imaginative space constructed by Cahun in her defiance of all categorization, in her repudiation of a delimited, censured world. Claude Cahun (1894-1954) was a surrealist photographer, artist and writer born in Nantes, France. Most well known for her performative and gender-bending self-portraiture, her remarkable, multiform oeuvre has received renewed interest in recent decades as a pioneer of queer expression., Back in print after over a decade: the playful and genre-shattering memoir of a beloved surrealist known for her gender-bending portraiture First published in 1930 by anti-fascist, avant-garde publisher Éditions du Carrefour in Paris as Aveux non Avenus , Cancelled Confessions (or Disavowals) is Claude Cahun's wildly radical answer to an invitation to write a memoir. Shattering the very premise of the "memoir"--the singularity of identity--into sharp and prismatic fragments, Cahun assembles an ever-mutating inquiry into the instability of "self" and its many masks. Using a multitude of forms (fables, jokes, aphorisms, letters, dialogues, dreams, hymns, pronouncements, etc.), to plumb the subjects of desire, love, gender, sex, fear, faith, religion and vanity (among others), Cancelled Confessions (or Disavowals) is a tour-de-force work of resistance: it provokes the reader to enter the capacious, provocative, playful and deeply imaginative space constructed by Cahun in defiance of all categorization, to repudiate a delimited, censured world and embrace, instead, the outcasts and cast-offs, the unknowable and the unknown. Thoughtfully redesigned to emulate the original artist's book, this revised edition of the out-of-print English translation by Susan de Muth--originally published in the UK by the Tate in 2007 and in the US by MIT Press in 2008--includes novelist and critic Pierre Mac Orlan's original 1930 preface along with contemporary essays by scholar Amelia Groom and translator de Muth. Almost 100 years old, Cancelled Confessions is not only prescient, but urgent: "It is not enough to be vanquished, you also have to turn defeat to your advantage." Born in France in 1894, Claude Cahun (née Lucy Renée Mathilde Schwob) was a writer, artist and anti-fascist activist, associated with the Surrealists, yet who was obscure for decades. Cahun's shape-shifting, gender-bending, "self" portraits--made in collaboration with Marcel Moore (née Suzanne Malherbe, aka l'autre moi , "the other me")--feature Cahun in androgynous garb with shaved head, or elaborately costumed and adorned with makeup or masks, often with mirrors or doubling, always multiplying the "I." These are the most recognizable works in a highly subversive, multiform oeuvre that includes Aveux non Avenus (Cancelled Confessions) as well as more untranslated writings. Now embraced as a pioneer of queer and feminist expression and heralded for a daring and inventive, years-long resistance to the Nazi occupation of the Isle of Jersey, Cahun created art--and a life--that aimed to disrupt societal, political and artistic orthodoxies with courage, wit and imagination.
Text by
Groom, Amelia
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