Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore's Anti-Nazi 'Paper Bullets' at CAM St. Louis
The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis is featuring an exhibition called "And I Saw New Heavens and a New Earth," showcasing the collaborative artistic efforts of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore. This exhibit, curated by Dean Daderko and oral historian Svetlana Kitto, comprises fifty-nine photographs arranged in chronological order, with a deliberate omission of visuals from the Nazi occupation of Jersey, which spanned from 1940 to 1945. During this period, Cahun and Moore engaged in creating covert messages, leading to their arrest in 1944. The display emphasizes their broader approach to challenging military power through their artwork.
Key facts
- Exhibition at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis runs from June 2026.
- Organized by Dean Daderko and Svetlana Kitto.
- Features 59 personal photographs with a gap for Nazi occupation 1940-1945.
- Cahun and Moore created anti-Nazi propaganda notes called 'paper bullets'.
- Notes were written in German, Czech, and Cyrillic, signed 'The soldier with no name'.
- They were imprisoned from 1944 to end of WWII for their resistance.
- Includes works like 'Aveux non avenus' (1930) and 'Les Paris sont ouverts' (1934).
- Moore studied at École des Beaux-Arts in Nantes and worked at Theatre Esoterique.
Entities
Artists
- Claude Cahun
- Marcel Moore
- Louis Aragon
- Marc-Adolphe Guégan
- Aleksandr Zhitomirsky
- Colonel Britton (Douglas Ritchie)
- Jeffrey H. Jackson
- Dean Daderko
- Svetlana Kitto
Institutions
- Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
- Jersey Heritage Collections
- RISD Museum
- Éditions du Carrefour
- Éditions Le Rayon Blanc
- Association des écrivains et artistes révolutionnaires
- Theatre Esoterique
- École des Beaux-Arts in Nantes
- BBC
- Hachette Book Group
Locations
- St. Louis
- United States
- Jersey
- Channel Islands
- France
- Paris
- Le Croisic
- Nantes
- Moscow
- Germany
- Czech Republic
- Russia
Sources
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