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Publisher
The Museum of Modern Art
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In 1981 Cindy Sherman (born 1954) was commissioned to contribute a special project to Artforum magazine. Given two facing pages, she chose to explore the pornographic centerfold, creating 12 large-scale horizontal images of herself appearing as various young women, often reclining, in private, melancholic moments of reverie. As Sherman explained, 'I wanted a man opening up the magazine to suddenly look at it in expectation of something lascivious...