{"id":1010,"date":"2012-02-21T23:19:50","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T04:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=1010"},"modified":"2012-02-21T23:19:50","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T04:19:50","slug":"cindy-sherman-at-the-museum-of-modern-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/21\/cindy-sherman-at-the-museum-of-modern-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Cindy Sherman at the Museum of Modern Art"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cindy Sherman, Untitled #466, 2008.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The biggest surprise in Cindy Sherman\u2019s major career retrospective, opening to previews today (and officially on Feb 26th)\u00a0at the Museum of Modern Art, is that there are few surprises.\u00a0 It testifies to Sherman\u2019s stature and influence that so much of the work in the show \u2013 171 photos from the 1977-80 Untitled Film stills to the most recent send-ups of society matrons \u2013 is so familiar that it\u2019s hard to even find the critical distance to reconsider it.<\/p>\n

What does emerge is Sherman\u2019s consistent and merciless pillorying of character types from the fashion victim to the aging coquette in galleries arranged by series \u2013 history portraits, centerfolds, etc – or by theme \u2013 fashion, carnival, abjection.\u00a0 By comparison, the Untitled Film Stills (appearing in their entirety) appear kind by virtue of their hidden fakery and purposefully glamorized subjects.<\/p>\n

Grotesquery – not limited to the fairy tale or sex series \u2013 is a heavy component of most of the work, whether in the repellent muscles of a prosthetic cleavage or the big hair and garish makeup of a woman trying desperately to hang on to her looks.\u00a0 Sherman\u2019s caricatures let most of us off the hook \u2013 at least until we start wearing caftans to lounge around our loggias \u2013 by representing \u2018other people\u2019 who\u2019ve lost their style compass.<\/p>\n

Sherman\u2019s early work \u2013 seen at the beginning and end of the show \u2013 belies such distancing, specifically a stop motion animated short film depicting Sherman as a paper doll who selects her own outfit only to be returned to her case by a giant hand.\u00a0 The artist\u2019s \u2018hand of God\u2019 is now aided by Photoshop, as she alters facial details like those on an 18 foot high mural at the gallery entrance.\u00a0 But though technology lends Sherman the potential for serious distortion, she holds back, continuing to tweek the conventions of dress and representation to which we adhere to a greater or lesser degree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The biggest surprise in Cindy Sherman\u2019s major career retrospective, opening to previews today (and officially on Feb 26th)\u00a0at the Museum of Modern Art, is that there are few surprises.\u00a0 It testifies to Sherman\u2019s stature and influence that so much of the work in the show \u2013 171 photos from the 1977-80 Untitled Film stills to … <\/p>\n

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