| Artist: | Cindy Sherman |
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| Title: | Untitled #264 [Body Parts Series] | |
| Date: | 1992 | |
| Nationality: | American | |
| Context: | Refiguring the Subject | |
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| Materials: | color photograph | |
| Subject: the "Body Parts" series deals directly with surreal images of the grotesque body that play between the animate and inanimate; the body as fetish object, made up of parts that can be added on or taken apart. Style: unnatural lighting; use of masks and false body parts mixed in with the real so that often it is difficult to tell where the real lets off and the artificial begins; disturbing, nightmarish images. Context: questions of gender and identity and what it means to be a human subject are raised by these images of the grotesque body beyond all limits. | ||
