Article
French
ID: <
10.4000/ceg.14964>
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DOI: <
10.4000/ceg.14964>
Abstract
Based on the figure of the witch, this essay approaches the work of two artists from different avant-garde generations, which eludes simple categorizations: Ré Soupault (1901-1996), Bauhaus student, photographer, fashion designer, and translator of Dadaist and Surrealist texts, wrote three radio broadcasts (1976-1986) dedicated to the witch in Western culture. Doris Stauffer (1934-2017), a visual artist, activist and teacher, organised “witch courses” in Zurich during the same period. Whether the artists explicitly called themselves witches (Stauffer) or not (Soupault), the figure of the witch can be used to describe their diverse creativity within and beyond the artistic field. In both cases, although they belong to two different generations of the avant-garde, their works coincide with the reappropriation of the figure of the witch by activists of the second wave feminism.