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10 Female Surrealist Artists You Should Know
While Surrealism of the early 20th century was a male dominated movement, here are ten women Surrealist artists and innovators who broke the movement’s glass ceiling and used their work as a tool for…
Claude Cahun, Self Portrait from the series I am in Training Don’t Kiss Me, 1927. Silver gelatin print, 117 x 89 mm. (11.7 x 8.9 cm.), Jersey Heritage Collections, © Jersey Heritage.
Gender and Identity in Claude Cahun’s Work
The masks of French Surrealist photographer Claude Cahun (1894-1954) vary from that of an androgynous weight-training flapper to a Buddhist monk.