Who is Cindy Sherman? Cover Image

Kto je Cindy Sherman?
Who is Cindy Sherman?

Author(s): Katarína Šantová
Subject(s): Media studies, Photography, Visual Arts, Politics and Identity
Published by: Spoločnosť pre estetiku na Slovensku a Inštitút estetiky a umeleckej kultúry Filozofickej fakulty Prešovskej univerzity v Prešove
Keywords: gender politics; identity politics; new media; Cindy Sherman; Lucia Nimcova; photography; conceptual arts; visual arts;

Summary/Abstract: The report introduces the work of Cindy Sherman, a visual and conceptual artist, who has mainly worked in the field of gender and identity politics. The author of the text describes Sherman ́s best known series of photographs Untitled Film Still as well as a series of photographs taken for Vogue Paris. Sherman ́s work is compared to the work of Slovak conceptual artist Lucia Nimcova and her series of photographs called Women. Later in the text, the author describes the field of recipients, devided into men and women, and the emotions they feel and their thoughts, as they look on the work of Sherman.

  • Issue Year: 1/2012
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 60-64
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Slovak