TY  - JOUR
AU  - Taylor, Ellen
PY  - 2016/06/01
TI  -  "Tout Ces Visages": Masquerade in the Self-Portraiture of Claude Cahun
JF  - Grinnell Undergraduate Research Journal; Vol 3 No 1 (2016): Grinnell College Undergraduate Research Journal 2015-2016
KW  - 
N2  -               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.               
UR  - https://ojs.grinnell.edu/index.php/gcurj/article/view/431