‘What was a woman meant to be at this time of dynamic social change?’ Dr Maria Quirk
In 1908, English-born, Paris-based artist Gwen John took a job as an artist model for the Swiss-German painter Ottilie Roederstein. John had modelled for artists sporadically since 1901 as a means of supporting her own artistic practice.
Aveux non Avenus, by the celebrated poet, writer, sculptor and photographer Claude Cahun, was published in 1930 by Éditions du Carrefour, Paris, in an edition of five hundred.