The essential Cindy Sherman.
Contributors: Sherman, Cindy, 1954-
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
Subjects: Artists -- United States -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Other titles: Cindy Sherman.
Description: Cindy Sherman has had a profound influence on the artists of her generation. Alluring and repellent, her hilarious art treats issues of femininity, the role of women in society, sexuality, and the act of making photographs. In Sherman's portrayals of B-grade '50s and '60s Hollywood heroines, fashion models, and subjects from Old Masters paintings, she serves as subject and object of her own work. Sherman's newer work catapults artificial body parts, decapitated dolls, and grisly scenes of violence to the fore. Do you know why: We are so engaged, amused, and horrified by Cindy Sherman's images? Sherman's photographs of herself are not really self-portraits? Sherman's photographs are Rorschachs for the end of the 20th century?
Table of contents: title: New kind of picture; title: Un-photographer; title: Dress-up, make-believe; title: Buffalo beckons; title: Deck the hallwalls; title: Cutouts for fun; title: Untitled film stills breakthrough; title: Artists space; title: Pictures, pictures on the wall; title: Pulling up the rear; title: Front and centerfolds; title: Pink robes; title: Fashion statement; title: Fabulous fairies; title: Flirting with disaster; title: Playing with history; title: What a doll!; title: From surrealism to Hollywood; title: Doing it Cindy's way.