%A Taylor, Ellen
%D 2016
%T  "Tout Ces Visages": Masquerade in the Self-Portraiture of Claude Cahun
%K 
%X               From 1912 until her death in 1954, French artist Claude Cahun (1894-1954) produced a series of self-portraits that interrogated and challenged traditional social assumptions about gender, sexuality, and identity more broadly. Cahun photographed herself embodying diverse, carefully-constructed, and often contradictory roles/“- selves.” In this paper I analyze the way performance, disguise, and masquerade function in Cahun’s self-portraiture. I argue that Cahun’s masquerading “selves” explore the complexities and nuances of identity and enable Cahun to challenge and reimagine female subjectivity, gender identity, sexuality, and patriarchal ways of seeing.               
%U https://ojs.grinnell.edu/index.php/gcurj/article/view/431
%J Grinnell Undergraduate Research Journal
%0 Journal Article
%P 13-19%V 3
%N 1
%8 2016-06-01