{"product_id":"cahun-deren-sherman-inverted-odysseys-mit-press-1999","title":"Inverted Odysseys — Claude Cahun \/ Maya Deren \/ Cindy Sherman","description":"\u003cp\u003ePublished in conjunction with the exhibition \u003cem\u003eInverted Odysseys\u003c\/em\u003e, this book places Claude Cahun, Maya Deren, and Cindy Sherman in dialogue through performance, self-invention, masquerade, photography, film, and the instability of identity. Contributors include Lynn Gumpert, Lucy Lippard, Jonas Mekas, Ted Mooney, Shelley Rice, and Abigail Solomon-Godeau.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA useful late-1990s exhibition publication connecting Surrealist self-fashioning, experimental cinema, and postmodern photographic role-play. The object sits between catalogue, reader, and visual archive: three artists treated through the image as mask, mirror, fiction, and transferable self.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCentral to the book is Claude Cahun’s “Heroines” — fifteen stream-of-consciousness monologues written in the voices of major women of literature and history, including the Virgin Mary, Sappho, Cinderella, Penelope, Delilah, and Helen of Troy, translated by Norman MacAfee and appearing here in their English-language debut.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Softcover with dust jacket\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 180\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e Approx. 20.5 × 28 cm\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrations:\u003c\/strong\u003e Throughout in black-and-white and colour\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e MIT Press \/ Grey Art Gallery, New York University, 1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdited by:\u003c\/strong\u003e Shelley Rice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Good used condition. Dust jacket shows surface wear, edge rubbing, softened corners, and light handling marks. Interior pages clean and complete.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShipping and handling included in listed price.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The New Rare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53615583691090,"sku":"CAHUN-MITPRESS-CAT-1999","price":55.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Cahun_Claude._Deren_Maya._Sherman_Cindy._Inverted_Odysseys._1999.jpg?v=1780301582","url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/products\/cahun-deren-sherman-inverted-odysseys-mit-press-1999","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}