Cindy Sherman
Hardcover, 264 pages, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, List Price: $60 | purchase
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Cindy Shermanpresents about 180 photographs from the artist's 35-year career.
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Each year, the nation's museums put on a show for us. Many shows, in fact, and with each exhibition of important work comes a resplendent monograph. For the art-book lover, 2012 tantalized with excellent overviews on, among others, Roy Lichtenstein, Lucian Freud and Vincent van Gogh. It's possible that any of those books — bearing in mind even the sagging naked forms of Lucian Freud — would serve as a more pleasantly pictorial gift than Cindy Sherman. But the Sherman might be the
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Cindy Sherman. Untitled #119. 1983. Chromogenic color print, 48 1/2 x 94" (115.6 x 238.8 cm).
Cindy Sherman. Untitled Film Still #6. 1977. Gelatin silver print, 9 7/16 x 6 1/2" (24 x 16.5 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Acquired through the generosity of Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder in memory of Eugene M. Schwartz.
Cindy Sherman. Untitled #424. 2004. Chromogenic color print, 53 3/4 x 54 3/4" (136.5 x 139.1 cm).
Cindy Sherman. Untitled #474. 2008. Chromogenic color print, 96 x 65" (243.8 x 165.1 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Acquired through the generosity of an anonymous donor, Michael Lynne, Charles Heilbronn and the Carol and David Appel Family Fund.
Excerpted from Cindy Sherman by Cindy Sherman. Copyright 2012 by Cindy Sherman. Excerpted by permission of The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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