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Title: Cindy Sherman: Retrospective by Cindy Sherman, Amada Cruz, Elizabeth A. T. Smith ISBN: 0933856490 Publisher: Museum of Contemporary Art Pub. Date: October, 1997 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $34.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.8
Rating: 3
Summary: Good Book-Not so good Art
Comment: Just recieved this item, the book gets 4 stars for layout and image quality, a good art book. The book gets 2 stars for the quality of the work it contains.
If you like Sherman than this is a good book for you,though I'd suggest re-evaluating you asthetic awarness :) If your looking for great art look elsewhere. Sherman is an overhyped artist. Popular because her work fits into the politically correct agendas and philosophies of the contemporary artworld, not because the work is good. Just read one of the reviews here. The book contains some good peices, some that are atleast interesting but far to many fall into the just plain bad category as represented in this book.
While recently attending a group critique an undergradute ceramics major stated she was a "process orientated" artist(said with artsy fartsy flair to make up for the fact she really didn't have anything to show). Sherman reminds me of her, a bad contemporary cliche masking itself behind feminist artworld dogma. If thats what you want, look at Jenny Saville, atleast she is a good painter, even if her content is often trite.
Rating: 5
Summary: At last a superb compilation of a great artist's works.
Comment: I can't believe it's taken this long for a compilation of Cindy Sherman's body of work to appear. But maybe that's the real measure of a major artist in this place at this time. Sherman is one of the strongest,most meticulous and most original artists to appear since the early 1930s. I'm not going to analyze the photographs, they've been analyzed to death and are far beyond analysis in any case. Suffice to say the quality and layout are excellent. A thrilling book! I do have one reservation which has nothing to do with CS. The accompanying essays are highly ideological (which CS ain't) and serve Sherman far less than their own agendas plus at least one of them is almost unreadable mumbo jumbo.
Rating: 4
Summary: loved it
Comment: A great overview of Cindy Sherman's art with very few gaps. A quick response to an above statement: The disgust you feel is a great part of how one should look at her work. One of the most fascinating aspects in all her photos is the ability she has to construct blantant lies that we react to almost as passionately as what we feel to be genuine. As for her dolls, it's more along the lines of her very merrily reconstructing versions of the human body that are obviously false yet we still search for their anatomical processes. The aspects of them that one finds disgusting are more like the silly goo of a cheap horror movie or the ridiculous body part shots of the sleaziest silicone laden porno. Despite our knowing it's inherent phoniness, we still are frightened, disgusted, and aroused. As I said before, that's a key to her work. Frankly, if you are that disturbed by plastic excrement and genitalia, but not phased at all by the phycological twisting and tension so prevelant in her earlier work, then maybe modern art overall just isn't your cup of tea.
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Title: Essential Cindy Sherman by Catherine Morris ISBN: 0810958082 Publisher: Harry N Abrams Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Cindy Sherman: Photographic Works 1975-1995 by Elisabeth Bronfen, Zdenek Felix, Martin Schwander ISBN: 388814809X Publisher: Schirmer/Mosel Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: I'll Be Your Mirror by Nan Goldin, David Armstrong, Hans Werner Holzwarth, Elisabeth Sussman ISBN: 3931141330 Publisher: Scalo Verlag Ac Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $55.00 |
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Title: Love for Sale: The Words and Pictures of Barbara Kruger by Barbara Kruger, Kate Linker ISBN: 0810926512 Publisher: Harry N Abrams Pub. Date: March, 1996 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Appearance by Danilo Eccher, Achille Bonito Oliva, Mariko Mori, Yasumasa Morimura, Luigi Ontani, Tony Oursler, Andres Serrano ISBN: 8881582724 Publisher: Charta Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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