Untitled Film Still #41

细节

Cindy Sherman (b. 1954)
Untitled Film Still #41
gelatin silver print
23 7/8 x 36 3/8in. (60.5 x 92.5cm.)
Executed in 1979, this work is number one from an edition of three

来源

Metro Pictures, New York.
Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

出版

A. Danto, Cindy Sherman Untitled Film Stills, Munich 1990, pl. 28 (another from the edition illustrated).
R. Krauss & N. Bryson, Cindy Sherman: 1975-1993, New York & Munich 1993 (another from the edition illustrated, p. 225).
Cindy Sherman, The Complete Untitled Film Stills, exh. cat., Warsaw, Centrum Sztuki Wspólczesnej, 1998 (another from the edition illustrated, unpaged).
Cindy Sherman - Retrospective, exh. cat., Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; Prague, Galerie Rudolfinum; Bordeaux, Musée d'Art Contemporain; Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art and Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1998-2000, no. 49 (another from the edition illustrated, p. 84).

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拍品专文

"Since Sherman's characters in the Untitled Film Stills are not specified, we are free to construct our own narratives for these women. Sherman encourages our participation by suggesting, through the deliberate nature of her poses, that she is the subject of someone's gaze. The voyeuristic nature of these images and their filmic associations encourage a psychoanalytical reading of these works as illustrations of Laura Mulvey's renowned 1975 essay 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,' which describes the image of women onscreen as the subject of the controlling male gaze and the object of masculine desire. Sherman's Untitled Film Stills not only imply our own and the camera's gazes but at times hint at the presence of another person in the room with her..." (A. Cruz, "Movies, Monstrosities, and Masks: Twenty Years of Cindy Sherman", in Cindy Sherman - Retrospective, exh. cat., Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, 1998-2000, p. 3).