Cindy Sherman

Name: Cindy Sherman
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ISBN: 9780262524636

ISBN-10: 0262524635

ISBN-13: 9780262524636

Edition: 2006

Authors: Craig Owens, Douglas Crimp, Johanna Burton, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Judith Williamson

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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…

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List price: $20.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 11/14/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English

Douglas Crimp is Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Art History at the University of Rochester. He is the author of On the Museum's Ruins and Melancholia and Moralism: Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics, both published by the MIT Press.



Series Preface


Acknowledgments


The Allegorical Impulse: Toward a Theory of Postmodernism, Part 2 (1980)



The Photographic Activity of Postmodernism (1980)



A Piece of the Action: Images of "Woman" in the Photography of Cindy Sherman (1983/1986)



Suitable for Framing: The Critical Recasting of Cindy Sherman (1991)



Cosmetics and Abjection: Cindy Sherman 1977-87 (1991/1996)



House of Wax (1993)



Cindy Sherman: Untitled (1993)



How to Face the Gaze (1996/2005)



Obscene, Abject, Traumatic (1996)



A Body Slate: Cindy Sherman (2004)



Index