ISBN-13: 9781841507071 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 208 str.
One of the twentieth century s most significant artists, Cindy Sherman has quietly uprooted conventional understandings of portraiture and art, questioning everything from identity to feminism. Critics around the world have taken Sherman s photographs and extensively examined what lies underneath. However, little critical ink has been spilled on Sherman s only film, "Office Killer," a piece that plays a significant role both in Sherman s body of work and in American art in the late twentieth century. Dahlia Schweitzer breaks the silence with her trenchant analysis of"Office Killer"and explores the film on a variety of levels, combating head-on the art world s reluctance to discuss the movie and arguing instead that it is only through a close reading of the film that we can begin to appreciate the messages underlying all of Sherman s work.
The first book on this neglected piece of an esteemed artist s oeuvre, "Cindy Sherman s Office Killer "rescues the film from critical oblivion and situates it next to the artist s other iconic works."