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Cindy
Sherman (October Files)
Paperback from The MIT Press
ISBN: 0262524635
With her Untitled Film Stills of the 1970s, Cindy Sherman became one
of the era's most important and influential artists. Since then, her metamorphosing
self-portraits and appropriation of genres can be seen as a continuous
investigation of representation and its complicated relationship to photography.
Sherman and her work are often discussed in terms of postmodern theories
and ideas that were coming to increasing prominence as her career began--
feminism, subjectivity, mass media, new forms of mechanical reproduction,
and even trauma, among others. Yet her refusal to acknowledge any of these
themes as particular concerns raises questions about the relationships
between the meanings projected upon a work of art and those produced by
it. Cindy Sherman's art fascinates us in part because of its capacity to
suggest--while at the same time slipping away from--so many possible readings.The
discussions in these illustrated essays span Sherman's almost three-decade-long
career, from her striking debut in the black-and-white Untitled Film Stills
through her color photographs using back-projection, prosthetic body parts,
and the ever-ingenuous modes of disguise and self-fashioning seen in such
later series as Centerfolds, Fairy Tales, and Disasters. The essays--by
such well-known critics as Douglas Crimp, Hal Foster, and Rosalind Krauss--respond
not only to Sherman's work but also to the arguments and postulations made
about it, becoming part of the ongoing critical conversation about an artist
of major significance. |
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Cindy
Sherman, Thomas Ruff & Frank Montero: 1000 Faces, 0 Faces, One Face
Hardcover from La Fábrica/Fundación
Telefónica
ISBN: 8415303157
1000 Faces/0 Faces/One Face unites two great contemporary artists
who have interrogated constructions of identity with an entirely unknown
late-nineteenth-century photographer named Frank Montero. Its thesis runs
as follows: in Cindy Sherman's manipulations of generic casting we encounter
a face that produces all faces; in Thomas Ruff's proliferating but depersonalized
portraits, we all encounter all faces reduced to a zero degree; and in
Montero, we encounter a face that plays the role of itself, throughout
the inscriptions wrought upon it by time. Montero's work, seemingly made
without artistic intentions or ambitions, and published here for the first
time, provides a sort of Rembrandt-like counterpoint to the identity arguments
made by Ruff and Sherman's work, and alongside them makes for the most
fascinating panorama of the absolute constructedness of the photographic
portrait and the eerie artifice of identity itself. |
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Cindy
Sherman: A Play of Selves
Hardcover from Hatje Cantz
Media Published: 2007-
ISBN: 3775719423
It was in the mid-70s that Cindy Sherman began making her earliest
works, in which she explored various manipulations of her own persona.
She began by experimenting with makeup and costumes, getting dressed up
for parties and surprising her friends. She then moved on to photograph
herself in the various personas she had created, producing highly inventive
but somewhat more primitive versions of the seminal work for which she
would later become known, the Untitled Film Stills series. It was
during this early period that Sherman created A Play of Selves--a
visual tale of a young woman overwhelmed by various alter-egos that compete
inside of her, and her final conquering of self-doubt. Acted out with 16
separate characters, these 72 photographic assemblages mark Sherman's earliest
explorations of herself-as-subject in a series of staged photographs. Published
here for the first time, these photographs include hundreds of shots of
the artist costumed as various characters in dozens of poses. Organized
in a four-act "play" with an elaborate, handwritten script, the individual
images were cut by the artist from original black-and-white prints. Preface
by Cindy Sherman. |
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Cindy
Sherman
by Regis Durand, Jean-Pierre Criqui, Laura Mulvey
Hardcover from Flammarion
Media Published: 2007-
ISBN: 2080305220
Since her earliest photographs in the 1970s, Cindy Sherman has built
a name as one of the most respected photographers of our day. Famous for
posing as the subject of her own photos, Sherman's work addresses the role
of the artist, the impact of the media upon the art world and the position
of women in society. Organized in a roughly chronological path by theme,
Cindy Sherman provides a comprehensive review of the artist's complete
works, including her Bus Riders, Murder Mystery, and Untitled Film Stills
series, and photographs on topics ranging from surrealist pictures, fairy
tales, rear screen projections, the Old Masters, centerfolds, pink robes,
clowns, dolls, and Hollywood. Fascinating archival material includes a
notebook of personal snapshots that Sherman kept from an early age, on
which she would circle herself and label each one: "That's Me." This monograph
is the catalogue for an international exhibition that will be held in Paris,
Denmark, Austria, and Berlin from 2006 through 2007. |
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Inverted
Odysseys: Claude Cahun, Maya Deren, Cindy Sherman
Paperback from The MIT Press
ISBN: 0262681064
Claude Cahun, Maya Deren, and Cindy Sherman were born in differentcountries,
in different generations ;Cahun in France in 1894, Deren inRussia in 1917,
and Sherman in the United States in 1954. Yet theyshare a deeply theatrical
obsession that shatters any notion of aunified self. All three try out
identities from different socialclasses and geographic environments, extend
their temporal range intothe past and future, and transform themselves
into heroes andvillains, mythological creatures, and sex goddesses. The
premise ofInverted Odysseys is that this expanded concept of theself ;this
playful urge to "try on" other roles-is more than afeminist or psychological
issue. It is central to our global culture,to our definition of human identity
in a world where the individualexists in a multicultural and multitemporal
environment. This book isan "odyssey" through historical, theoretical,
critical, and literaryperspectives on the three artists viewed in the context
of theseissues. Contributors include Lynn Gumpert, Lucy Lippard, Jonas
Mekas,Ted Mooney, Shelley Rice, and Abigail Solomon-Godeau.Central to the
book is Claude Cahun's "Heroines" manuscript, a seriesof fifteen stream-of-consciousness
monologues written in the voices ofmajor women of literature and history,
such as the Virgin Mary,Sappho, Cinderella, Penelope, Delilah, and Helen
of Troy. Translatedby Norman MacAfee, these perverse and hilarious vignettes
make theirEnglish-language debut here. This is also the first time that
Cahun'stext has appeared in its entirety.The book accompanies an exhibit
cocurated by Lynn Gumpert and ShelleyRice at the Grey Art Gallery, New
York University.Published in cooperation with the Grey Art Gallery, New
YorkUniversity.EXHIBITION SCHEDULE:Grey Art GalleryNew York, New YorkNovember
16, 1999 - January 29, 2000Museum of Contemporary ArtNorth Miami, FloridaMarch
- May 2000 |
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Cindy
Sherman: Centerfolds
by Andy Grundberg, Peter Schjeldahl, Roberta Smith, Lisa Phillips
Hardcover from Skarstedt Fine Art
Media Published: 2004-
ISBN: 0970909020
Described by one critic as "embarrassingly intimate," Cindy Sherman's
Centerfolds, a series of twelve 2 x 4 foot images shot in 1981 for an Artforum
commission, take the horizontal centerfold as their physical and conceptual
framework. Though the images were never run in the magazine--the editor
was concerned that they would be misunderstood--they remain some of the
most affecting of Sherman's constructed pictures. In them, Sherman's vaguely
adolescent female characters fill up the frame with an ambiguous, uncomfortably
close presence, their plaid kilts, wet t-shirts, matted hair, disheveled
nightgowns, and pretty gingham dresses keeping them in your face but unavailable,
emotionally suggestive but ambivalently distanced. This handsome, compact
volume, the first to include all twelve of the Centerfold images, is run
through with an informative, involved text by Lisa Phillips, Head Curator
of the New Museum and a long-time supporter of Sherman's work. |
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Cindy
Sherman: Retrospective
by Amanda Cruz, Amelia Jones
Paperback from Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 050027987X
American artist Cindy Sherman creates staged and manipulated photographs
that draw on popular culture and art history to explore female identity.
Her art embodies two developments in the art world: the impact of postmodern
theory on art practice; and the rise of photography and mass-media techniques
as modes of artistic expression. This volume, published on the occasion
of an international touring exhibition, presents over 200 images from the
breadth of Sherman's work, from the "Untitled Film Stills" of the 1970s
to series such as "Centerfolds", "Fashion", "Disasters", "Fairy Tales"
and "History Portraits". Essayists Cruz, Jones and Smith offer insights
into Sherman's art from several vantage points, positioning it within the
trajectory of feminist art history and revealing her influence since the
1970s. |
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Cindy
Sherman: Working Girl (Decade Series )
by Catherine Morris, Paul Ha
Paperback from Contemporary Art Museum St.
Louis
Media Published: 2006-
ISBN: 0971219583
When curators at Saint Louis's Contemporary Art Museum asked Cindy
Sherman whether there was a moment in her career whose resonance might
be underappreciated, one around which she might like to develop an exhibit
and a book, she selected her earliest adult creative years, beginning while
she was still a student at Buffalo State College in the mid-1970s. Working
Girl is full of rarely seen pieces, and it features, for the first time,
documentation of and stills from Sherman's 1975 animated short Doll Clothes,
which is among the pieces that bring Sherman's early exploration of gender
and identity into focus. The mostly small-scale work, including many early
black-and-white, hand-colored, and sepia-toned photographs, is culled primarily
from the artist's family members' collections and her own, and includes
the pieces that laid the groundwork for her first major success, the acclaimed
Film Stills series. Working Girl is a unique glimpse into the early development
of Sherman's artistic practice, and into the genesis of her inimitable
substance and style. It illuminates her conceptual approach to photography
and foretells the career that would be launched in the late 1970s, positioning
her as one of the most significant artists of our time. |
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