Nov
9
Response #2: “Disasters” as The Breaking Point
November 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment
- Peter Zimmerman
You write, “I see the portrait as the framing of the human face within a 2-D plane, using the artist’s own emotive reading of the face in order to create a sense of the sitter.” I feel this coding of the portrait verges on the archaic, thereby not allowing for more plastic conceptions [...]
Oct
5
A Potential Third Dimension? Cindy Sherman In Between Modernism and Postmodernism
October 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment
by Peter Zimmerman
The following essay is based on a reading of a 1981 feature by Andy Grundberg on the work of Cindy Sherman:
Cindy Sherman: A Playful and Political Post-Modernist
By Andy Grundberg
Published November 22, 1981
Grundberg, in opening his article on Cindy Sherman, presents a broad look at the history of Modernist photography. He claims that the [...]