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“... developing.’ There’s a danger of romanticising the relationship itself, but he avoids it. Louise Downie in the introduction to Don’t Kiss Me speculates about what Cahun and Moore would have made of their sudden posthumous eminence: ‘They would have hated the minute dissection of their art and lives, the logical cause and ...”

“... First, a somewhat spittle-laden squawk: how one positively slavers for a good biography of the astonishing French artist known as Claude Cahun (1894-1954). Mention her in conversation and you are likely to draw a puzzled ‘Claude who?’ even from otherwise predatory culture vultures. In my own case – it’s true – certain vile French diphthongs may be part of the problem: the phonetic distinctions between Cahun, Caen, Caïn, Cannes, Cohn, canne, cane, cagne, camp, cône and con remain, sadly, a perpetual trial ...”