Essays on Cindy Sherman

Cindy Sherman is an American contemporary artist (born 1954) who is well known for her conceptual self-portraits and her representation of stereotypes. Her career from the mid 1970s to the present shows dominant themes and contexts in her photographs. Influenced by 1950s and 1960s Hollywood, Sherman features herself in various stereotypical female roles in film...

Cindy Sherman was brought up being the youngest among her four siblings, which meant she sought attention from a very young age and most often had to entertain herself, which she would do by dressing up and creating various characters due to her extensive costume wardrobe. Despite no one in her family questioning her dressing...

As a representative of women’s art, the achievement of the American female artist Cindy Sherman plays an important role in Western postmodern art. She consistently uses a specific art, film or pop culture medium as a reference — B-grade film, magazine inserts, fashion, fairy tales, classical paintings, pornography, surrealist photography, and horror film — she...