| Description |
xi, 168 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 28 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword and Acknowledgments / Bonnie Clearwater, Lynn Gumpert and Shelley Rice -- Introduction / Lynn Gumpert -- 1. Inverted Odysseys / Shelley Rice -- 2. Scattering Selves / Lucy R. Lippard -- 3. Claude Cahun's "Heroines" / Norman MacAfee -- 4. The Equivocal "I": Claude Cahun as Lesbian Subject / Abigail Solomon-Godeau -- 5. A Few Notes on Maya Deren / Jonas Mekas -- 6. Cindy Sherman: An Invention for Two Voices / Ted Mooney -- Artists' Biographies / Erin Donnelly |
| Summary |
"Claude Cahun, Maya Deren, and Cindy Sherman were born in different countries, in different generations - Cahun in France in 1894, Deren in Russia in 1917, and Sherman in the United States in 1954. Yet they share a deeply theatrical obsession that shatters any notion of a unified self. All three try out identities from different social classes and geographic environments, extend their temporal range into the past and future, and transform themselves into heroes and villains, mythological creatures, and sex goddesses. The premise of Inverted Odysseys is that this expanded concept of the self - this playful urge to "try on" other roles - is more than a feminist or psychological issue. It is central to our global culture, to our definition of human identity in a world where the individual exists in a multicultural and multemporal environment |
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This book is an "odyssey" through historical, theoretical, critical, and literary perspectives on the three artists viewed in the context of these issues."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Title page contains mirror image title |
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Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the New York University Grey Art Gallery, Nov. 1999-Jan. 2000 and the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Spring, 2000 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Deren, Maya -- Exhibitions.
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Sherman, Cindy -- Exhibitions.
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Sherman, Cindy, 1954- -- Exhibitions.
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Deren, Maya, 1908-1961 -- Exhibitions
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Cahun, Claude, 1894-1954 -- Exhibitions.
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Identity (Psychology) in art -- Exhibitions.
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Women photographers -- Exhibitions.
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Photography, Artistic -- Exhibitions.
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| Genre/Form |
Exhibition catalogs.
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Exhibition catalogs.
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| Author |
Gumpert, Lynn.
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Rice, Shelley.
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Grey Art Gallery & Study Center.
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Museum of Contemporary Art (North Miami, Fla.)
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| LC no. |
99026888 |
| ISBN |
0262681064 paperback alkaline paper |
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