1980s Icon Greer Lankton Explored Glamour and Gender in Her Eerie Dolls
“Under this mask, another mask”. So wrote Claude Cahun , the alter ego of Lucie Schwob, Surrealist writer and photographer. Her writing and art are similarly polymorphous and difficult to categorise, challenging fixed ideas around self-identity and authenticity. Whilst living in Paris, Cahun associated with Man Ray, Salvador Dalí and André Breton –... See more
Claude Cahun: A Very Curious Spirit
As a schoolboy, he wrote in his diary, ‘I want only to be Cecil Beaton,’ adding later, ‘I don’t want people to know me as I really am, but as I am trying and pretending to be.’ His experiments with costume and identity allowed him, time and again, to choose just who that Cecil Beaton might be
Beaton arrived in Hollywood towards the end of 1929 to
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Jones' striking androgynous look—with her flat-top haircut and angular features—challenged traditional beauty standards and opened new possibilities for representation in fashion and entertainment. She was unapologetically androgynous, using her unique look to make a statement and inspire others.
Her appearance
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Chelsea G. Summers • A Certain Hunger
When people think of pop art, names like Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Claes Oldenberg come to mind. Yet Nicola, who is now 80 years old, offers a female perspective on the relationship between beauty, art, commodities and value. As curator Flavia Frigeri put it: “It’s really important to tell that story, particularly as so much pop art is... See more