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Christopher Phillips' essay "To Imagine That I Am Another" reviews the exhibition of the work of the Surrealist artist Claude Cahun. The Sackner Archive holds a copy of the book "Aveux non avenus" described in the article (another one was deaccessioned. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Auction catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Claude Cahun's surrealistic book "Aveux Non Avenus" listed in this catalogue was purchased by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Several shaped typewriter poems by Claude Cahun are reproduced from her previously unpublished homoerotic, feminist, set in ancient Greek, novel, "Heroines." It was translated by Norman MacAfee from a manuscript written in English and French in 1925. The typings include a mathematical poem, a French shoe, an arc of triumph, punctuation poems and a goblet. Several aphorisms appear in the novel. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The exhibition that accompanied this brochure was curated by Whitney Chadwick, Katy Kline and Helaine Posner. The Sackner Archive lent Cahun's photograph,"L'Humanite Poupee," two copies of the book "Aveux non avenus" by Claude Cahun, Francois Lepelier's "Claude Cahun: Un Monographie," and the catalogue "Claude Cahun Photographe" to the exhibition at its Miami Art Museum venue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The exhibition that accompanied this catalogue was curated by Whitney Chadwick, Katy Kline and Helaine Posner. The catalogue was edited by Whitney Chadwick. In her opening essay, "An Infinite Play of Empty Mirrors; Women, Surrealism, and Self-Realization," Chadwick writes that the rediscovery of Claude Cahun in the early 1980s is accompanied with a critical rereading of historical Surrealism. "The neatness with which Cahun's photographs have been annexed to post modern concerns with the decentered subject and with identity as contingent and mutable has obscured the complexity and contradictions of her writings and blinded many to the works' representations of conflicted identities." Katy Kline contributes an essay, "In or Out of the Picture: Claude Cahun and Cindy Sherman." She analyses the differences between the two artists and how they each participated in the Surrealist belief system. Kline notes that Cahun was one of few women close to the original Surrealist group and...

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A brief biography and an illustration of the Surrealist artist Claude Cahun are included in this review. Cahun's book "Aveux non Avenu," held by the Sackner Archive, is described as a book of meditation, aphorisms and personal philosophies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.