SHERMAN, Cindy. Untitled Film Stills. New York: Rizzoli.1990
4to.Publishers black cloth with white lettering to spine; Black and White photographic dust jacket; Creasing to dustjacket along the edges otherwise internally fine. Very good.
First Edition from the famous visual artist
Arguably the most renown member of the Pictures Generation of the 1970's, within which artists responded to the evolution of mass media through appropriating images from television and advertisement, Untitled Film Stills was published shortly after Sherman moved to New York. These images, beginning from when she was as young as 23, see her transform into various identities and caricatures resembling those from the scenes of 1950's and 60's B movies as well as those of European Art House, and in this way- Sherman becomes both artist and subject. To this day one of her most well-known projects, Untitled Film Stills brought Sherman international recognition and this iconic photobook contains numerous works which have come to be understood as masterpieces of American art with their poignant representations of femininity and cultural stereotype. The work is accompanied by an essay from American critic and philosopher Arthur C. Danto in which he writes; "Sherman has achieved the visual artists equivalent...of transcendent performance by vacating the space between the viewer and The Girl, locking them together in an encompassing illusion".
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