Cindy Sherman Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 13 pages of information about the life of Cindy Sherman.

Cindy Sherman Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 13 pages of information about the life of Cindy Sherman.
This section contains 3,620 words
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Authors and Artists for Young Adults on Cindy Sherman

Cindy Sherman has been acclaimed as "the girl with a hundred faces" by Sandrine Malinaud of the periodical Cimaise. Her head has been crowned in thick ringlets of hair, and presented bare as a monk's. She has worn pendulous breasts, bull's horns, a hero's hirsute chest, and long beards. Once she appeared dressed as a baby doll staring mournfully at the silent telephone; she also appeared as a capricious courtesan, a country girl bewildered by the big city, a sphinx with a riddle, a wizard, a fairy-tale monster, a cleric, a Raphael Madonna, and an Elizabethan courtier. At one moment she has portrayed a murder victim, poignantly incriminating the viewer with the murderous need to look; the next moment, Bacchus, offering us a mythic opportunity to share the intoxicating pleasures of shape-shifting, or transformation, of light, itself. However, as Andy Grundberg, noted in the New York Times, "nowhere...

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