Inverted odysseys : Claude Cahun, Maya Deren, and Cindy Sherman /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1999.
Description:1 online resource (xi, 168 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Language:English
Subject:Cahun, Claude, -- 1894-1954 -- Exhibitions.
Deren, Maya -- Exhibitions.
Sherman, Cindy -- Exhibitions.
Cahun, Claude, -- 1894-1954
Deren, Maya.
Sherman, Cindy.
Photography, Artistic -- Exhibitions.
PHOTOGRAPHY -- Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions -- General.
PHOTOGRAPHY -- Subjects & Themes -- General.
PHOTOGRAPHY -- Individual Photographers -- Artists' Books.
PHOTOGRAPHY -- Photoessays & Documentaries.
Photography, Artistic.
Visual Arts.
Art, Architecture & Applied Arts.
Photography.
Electronic books.
Exhibition catalogs.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11139932
Hidden Bibliographic Details
Other authors / contributors:Rice, Shelley.
Gumpert, Lynn.
Grey Art Gallery.
Museum of Contemporary Art (North Miami, Fla.)
ISBN:9780262287364
0262287366
1423737881
9781423737889
Notes:Title page contains mirror image title.
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Print version record.
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. This book is an "odyssey" through historical, theoretical, critical, and literary perspectives on the three artists viewed in the context of these issues."--Jacket.
Other form:Print version: Inverted odysseys. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1999 0262681064