Auteur: Gen Doy

This is the first single-authored book in English on the photographer Claude Cahun, whose work was rediscovered in the 1980s. Doy moves beyond standard postmodern approaches, instead repositioning …

Through its provocative examination of feminist and Marxist approaches to women’s art and female representations, this book challenges the widespread belief that Marxism has nothing valuable to …

Through its provocative examination of feminist and Marxist approaches to women’s art and female representations, this book challenges the widespread belief that Marxism has nothing valuable to …

This is the first single-authored book in English on the photographer Claude Cahun, whose work was rediscovered in the 1980s. Doy moves beyond standard postmodern approaches, instead repositioning …

Gen Doy investigates the hitherto neglected meanings of drapery and the draped body in visual culture. The baroque and the classical are her subjects, as are Freud »s ‘Gravida’, Clerambault »s …

Ideas of selfhood, from Descartes’ theory of "I think therefore I am" to postmodern notions of the fragmented and de-centred self, have been crucial to the visual arts. Gen Doy explores …

Gen Doy investigates the hitherto neglected meanings of drapery and the draped body in visual culture. The baroque and the classical are her subjects, as are Freud’s "Gravida", …