Cindy Sherman / Paul Moorhouse with contributions by Erika Balsom, Magda Keaney and Rochelle Steiner.
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TextPublisher: London : National Portrait Gallery, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 255 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 33 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781855147126 (hbk.) :Contained works: Sherman, Cindy. Works. SelectionsSubject(s): Sherman, Cindy -- Exhibitions | Photography, Artistic -- Exhibitions | Photography | PhotographyDDC classification: 779'.092 Summary: Cindy Sherman is among the most influential artists of her generation. Using herself as model, wearing a range of costumes and portraying herself in invented situations, she interrogates the imagery employed by the mass media, popular culture, and fine art. Television, advertising, magazines, fashion, and Old Master paintings all form part of her visual language. Whether using make-up, costumes, props, and prosthetics to manipulate her own appearance, or devising elaborate tableaux, her entire body of 40 years' work constitutes a highly distinctive response to contemporary and earlier culture, whose stylistic tropes she appropriates and quotes. This book will explore the rich cultural sources that Sherman plunders in creating provocative and ambiguous images that lead us to question the things we see.
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Published to accompany an exhibition of the same name held at the National Portrait Gallery, London, 27th June-15th September 2019 ; Vancouver Art Gallery, 26th October 2019-8th March 2020.
Includes bibliographical references.
Cindy Sherman is among the most influential artists of her generation. Using herself as model, wearing a range of costumes and portraying herself in invented situations, she interrogates the imagery employed by the mass media, popular culture, and fine art. Television, advertising, magazines, fashion, and Old Master paintings all form part of her visual language. Whether using make-up, costumes, props, and prosthetics to manipulate her own appearance, or devising elaborate tableaux, her entire body of 40 years' work constitutes a highly distinctive response to contemporary and earlier culture, whose stylistic tropes she appropriates and quotes. This book will explore the rich cultural sources that Sherman plunders in creating provocative and ambiguous images that lead us to question the things we see.
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