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Cindy Sherman

by Cindy Sherman, Peter Schjeldahl, Lisa Phillips

This catalogue traces an influential career through over 200 images exploring identity and cultural stereotypes. It includes essays, notebook excerpts, and contact sheets that analyse the construction of the self within contemporary art and feminism.

Accession 16268 ISBN 0874270553 Publisher Whitney Museum of American Art
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