#Marcel Moore

[yourdailyqueer]

Marcel Moore (deceased)

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Lesbian

DOB: 19 July 1892  

RIP: 19 February 1972

Ethnicity: White - French

Occupation: Photographer, artist, illustrator

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Marcel Moore photographed by Claude Cahun c. 1928

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Claude Cahun, Marcel Moore

Untitled, 1927-1929

[mon-nid]

Claude Cahun · Confissões inconfessas 1919-1925 · Tradução: André Coelho · Sr Teste Edições · Col. Fulgor Quotidiano · 2024

Considerada por André Breton como “um dos espíritos mais curiosos do nosso tempo”, Claude Cahun foi fotógrafa, poeta, ensaísta, crítica, tradutora, actriz e activista política. A sua obra, onde explora o mistério e a ausência, dá forma a questões como género, identidade e auto-representação. Sobrinha de Marcel Schwob foi, junto com Dora Maar, a principal fotógrafa do Surrealismo. Os seus auto-retratos remontam aos seus 18 anos, em 1912. Ao lado de Breton e Bataille colabora com o Movimento Antifascista “Contre Attaque”. Juntamente com a sua companheira, Marcel Moore,  foi presa em 1944 e condenada à morte. Escapou miraculosamente e liberta no final da Guerra. Uma artista em constante busca da revelação de si.

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Untitled, c. 1925 Claude Cahun, Marcel Moore Gelatin silver print

[hey-casandra]

My niche queer Jewish Good Omens head cannon is that Crowley had a hand in the surrealist movement and was friends with Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore.

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[Confessioni mai fatte][Claude Cahun]

Identità fluida e metamorfosi: Scopri la vita e l'opera di Claude Cahun, un'artista pioniera che ha rivoluzionato il modo di concepire se stessi.

Claude Cahun: Un Viaggio Intimo alla Scoperta di Sé attraverso l’Arte e la Scrittura Titolo: Confessioni mai fatte. Quando il calcio è umanesimoScritto da: Claude CahunTitolo originale: Aveux non avenusEdito da: La Vita FeliceAnno: 2024Pagine: 208ISBN: 9788893467858 La sinossi di Confessioni mai fatte di Claude Cahun Andare alla scoperta di sé, enunciare le disposizioni segrete dell’Io,…

[coulisses-onirisme]

Claude CAHUN Marcel MOORE (deux femmes en couple amoureux et actif)

Femme, féministe, hors genre, photographe, écrivaine, comédienne, artiste multiple, engagée politiquement contre les nazis, résistante active (19ème 20ème siècle)

Elle réalise, de 1949 à 1953 une série de photo intitulée Le chemin des chats18, à La Rocquaise, ou sur le Mur de l'Atlantique ou Atlantik Wahl construit par les allemands le long de la plage St Brelade, toujours visible (Ile de Jersey)

« Je sens comme si je les voyais, mes cuisses maigrir d'une sueur de fièvre, douche parfois brûlante, parfois glacée, toujours inattendue. Mes genoux vidés, les os dissous, vêtu d'un parchemin lucide, se gonflent, flottantes vessies de porc. Mon cœur alenti sonne un glas funèbre, puis bat bruyamment comme un tocsin. Il devient mobile, se promène dans mon ventre, y éclate en coliques profondes. À chaque secousse, une conscience tombe, pulvérisée. Peu à peu, je m'allège. Bref répit ! Mon cœur se gonfle outrageusement et s'emplit d'hydrogène. Gros ballon rouge et bleu, il monte au bout d'un fil. À l'autre bout, c'est une guêpe enfermée, qui frappe à coups venimeux aux parois de ma poitrine. Si je l'aidais à sortir ? Et mes ongles sans hésiter pratiqueraient un jour qui guide l'échappée de ce cœur s'il ne faisait dehors désespérément noir. Ô nocturne sans issue qui se joue dans les cercles de la nuit musicale, infernal serpent qui s'est décapité en avalant sa queue, bracelet aux sept chaînes hermétiques » Colville 1999, p. 56

Claude CAHUN Marcel MOORE (two women in a loving and active couple)

Woman, feminist, nogenrer, photographer, writer, actress, multiple artist, politically engaged against the Nazis, active resistance fighter (19th to 20th century)

From 1949 to 1953, she produced a series of photos entitled Le chemin des chats18, at La Rocquaise, or on the Atlantic Wall or Atlantik Wahl built by the Germans along St Brelade beach, still visible (Island of Jersey). )

“I feel as if I saw them, my thighs losing weight with a feverish sweat, a shower sometimes hot, sometimes freezing, always unexpected. My emptied knees, dissolved bones, clad in lucid parchment, swell, floating pig bladders. My slowed heart sounds a funeral toll, then beats loudly like a tocsin. It becomes mobile, wanders around in my stomach, bursts into deep colic. With each shock, a consciousness falls, pulverized. Little by little, I lighten up. Brief respite! My heart swells outrageously and fills with hydrogen. Big red and blue balloon, it goes up at the end of a thread.

At the other end, it's a trapped wasp, striking venomous blows at the walls of my chest. What if I helped him get out? And my nails without hesitation would practice one day which guides the escape of this heart if it were not desperately dark outside.

O nocturnal dead end which plays out in the circles of the musical night, infernal serpent which decapitated itself by swallowing its tail, bracelet with seven hermetic chains” Colville 1999, p. 56

Chemin des chats, 1948. Claude Cahun

[a-gay-a-day]

Marcel Moore

Marcel Moore was the romantic and creative partner of Claude Cahun. I will be using singular they/them pronouns in reference to Marcel Moore in this post, as they were described, along with Claude Cahun, as a “Lesbian partners known for cross dressing.” They changed their name to Marcel Moore, and often participated in masked photoshoots, much the same as we see with Claude Cahun. 

Marcel Moore would work on many projects with Claude, often illustrating the work that Claude Cahun would write. In addition to this, Marcel Moore was also an activist resisting the Nazis. They were fluent in German, and would often deliver anti-nazi propaganda into German camps. 

They, along with Claude Cahun, were described as a “proto-transgender”, and fell outside the binary in all of their work. This has lead to most scholars assuming the two of them were cisgender as a default. 

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Art and Pride

As Pride Month comes to a close, Delayne, our Arts Administration blogger, highlights some queer artists throughout history (1850s-present) and works deserving of our attention. #MarywoodArt #ArtHistory #QueerArtHistsory #ArtsAdministration

As we’re nearing the end of June, I thought I should close out Pride Month by highlighting a few queer artists and their works. Sexuality and gender identity are major driving forces in any artwork whether consciously or unconsciously included, and the specific struggle of LGBTQ+ artists has for generations inspired a unique lens in creating. It is important to remind ourselves of artists that…

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Artists by David Levine, for The New York Review of Books, 1964-1988

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I bloody well hope my art makes you feel weird and confuses the mind. That is kind of the point of being a Surrealist.

Which is also why the OG Surrealists were vehemently anti-Nazi. Claude Cahun and their girlfriend distributed anti-Nazi propaganda, Robert Desnos was an active member of the French Resistance, and René Magritte scammed the fuckers by selling them fake art treasures.

Tag yourself as this list of “bad art” features, according to a twitter fascist

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Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, Untitled (Claude Cahun in Le Mystère d'Adam) 1929

Claude Cahun, Autoportrait, 1929

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[zef-zef]

Mattin - July from: Mattin - Songbook #7 (Munster, 2019)

Mattin: voice, texts in English Moor Mother: electronics Farahnaz Hatam: computer Cathleen Schuster: voice, sampler, texts in German Lucio Capece: bass clarinet, sampler Marcel Dickhage: voice, sampler, texts in German Colin Hacklander: drums

recorded in November 2017 at Digging the Global South Festival in Cologne, Germany.

The cover features a picture of Germaine Berton, the anarchist who in 1923 was accused of murdering Marius Plateau, director of the far-right organization French Action League.

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Un té tarde, siempre Proust, no se, es así… 🫖☕🧁🍎❤️🩷💚💜🩵

"Y como ese entretenimiento de los japoneses que meten en un cacharro de porcelana pedacitos de papel, al parecer, informes, que en cuanto se mojan empiezan a estirarse, a tomar forma, a colorearse y a distinguirse, convirtiéndose en flores, en casas, en personajes consistentes y cognoscibles, así ahora todas las flores de nuestro jardín y las del parque del señor Swann y las ninfeas del Vivonne y las buenas gentes del pueblo y sus viviendas chiquititas y la iglesia y Combray entero y sus alrededores, todo eso, pueblo y jardines, que va tomando forma y consistencia, sale de mi taza de té."

Marcel Proust, "Por el camino de Swann"

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