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Cindy Sherman : retrospective

essays by Amada Cruz, Elizabeth A.T. Smith, Amelia Jones.
New York : Thames and Hudson, 1997.
This comprehensive catalogue traces the career of Cindy Sherman, examining her achievements as one of the leading American artists of our time. By exploring the myriad constructions of female identity and the body in our culture, Sherman imitates and confronts assorted representational stereotypes, becoming for many an icon of the contemporary concerns of feminism and postmodernism. Essayists Amada Cruz, Elizabeth A. T. Smith, and Amelia Jones offer keen insight and observations from several distinct vantage points, demonstrating that Sherman's work is a lens through which to view contemporary art and its ongoing concern with the profound issues of the structures of the self. More than 200 images show the breadth of Sherman's body of work, from the Untitled Film Stills of the 1970s to series such as Centerfolds, Fashion, Disasters, Fairy Tales, and History Portraits, as well as photographs influenced by surrealist artists. Also included are intriguing excerpts from Sherman's notebooks, selections from her contact sheets, and numerous Polaroid studies, all of which shed light on the artist's process.

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Bibliographic Information

Format:
book Book
Author:
Sherman, Cindy
Subject:
Sherman, Cindy > Exhibitions.
Photography, Artistic > Exhibitions.
Publication Year:
1997
Language:
English
Published:
New York
ISBN:
050027987, 9780500279878
Course:
ENG489
Visual Culture Studies
Note:
At head of title: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago ; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
Exhibition held: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, November 2, 1997 through February 1, 1998 ... [et al.].
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-217).

 

 


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