CINDY SHERMAN.(Brief Article)

Cindy Sherman's oeuvre is expanding in both directions--not just forward in time, but backward as well. We have always been told that her work begins in 1977, with "Untitled Film Stills," the series that occupied her through 1980. (Although the '97 traveling LA MOCA retrospective included five images dated 1975, that show's catalogue treated these straight-on head shots, in which the artist altered her appearance by means of hats and makeup, less as part of the oeuvre itself than as part of its background.

Indeed, the pictures were presented not in the chronological ...

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