{"title":"Cindy Sherman","description":"\u003cp\u003eExhibition ephemera, postcards, and printed matter relating to the work of Cindy Sherman. Objects issued in connection with exhibitions and institutional presentations of the American artist, whose practice explores identity, performance, and constructed selfhood through photography.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"cindy-sherman-untitled-317-retrospective-museum-of-contemporary-art-chicago-1998","title":"Cindy Sherman — Untitled #317 (1995) — Exhibition Postcard, Cindy Sherman: Retrospective, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 1998","description":"\u003cp\u003eMuseum promotional postcard \/ exhibition announcement\u003cbr\u003eOffset print on card stock\u003cbr\u003ePublished by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago\u003cbr\u003eExhibition dates: 21 February – 31 May 1998\u003cbr\u003eCondition: light handling wear and minor surface marks consistent with age and storage\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIssued for \u003cem\u003eCindy Sherman: Retrospective\u003c\/em\u003e, presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago from 21 February – 31 May 1998 and jointly organised with the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. The card reproduces \u003cem\u003eUntitled #317\u003c\/em\u003e (1995), a work from Sherman’s mid-1990s \u003cem\u003eMasks\u003c\/em\u003e series.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe reproduced image belongs to a body of work in which Sherman shifted from earlier self-performative roles toward prosthetic surfaces, mannequins, masks, and constructed identities. The tightly framed gold face produces an uncertain register somewhere between portrait, disguise, mannequin, and theatrical object. Identity appears less as revelation than as a manufactured surface.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe reverse retains traces of its original function. Alongside exhibition information, museum text, and a membership campaign offer, the object records a particular moment when institutional promotion, mass circulation, and a major retrospective converged. The postcard becomes both advertisement and residual exhibition material.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal period item. Shipping and handling included in the listed price.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"THE NEW RARE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53551096430930,"sku":"SHERMAN-MCA-PC-1998","price":95.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Sherman_Cindy._Museum_of_Contemporary_Art_exhibition_announcement._1998_front.jpg?v=1779609858"},{"product_id":"cahun-deren-sherman-inverted-odysseys-mit-press-1999","title":"Inverted Odysseys — Claude Cahun \/ Maya Deren \/ Cindy Sherman","description":"\u003cp\u003ePublished in conjunction with the exhibition \u003cem\u003eInverted Odysseys\u003c\/em\u003e, this book places Claude Cahun, Maya Deren, and Cindy Sherman in dialogue through performance, self-invention, masquerade, photography, film, and the instability of identity. Contributors include Lynn Gumpert, Lucy Lippard, Jonas Mekas, Ted Mooney, Shelley Rice, and Abigail Solomon-Godeau.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA useful late-1990s exhibition publication connecting Surrealist self-fashioning, experimental cinema, and postmodern photographic role-play. The object sits between catalogue, reader, and visual archive: three artists treated through the image as mask, mirror, fiction, and transferable self.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCentral to the book is Claude Cahun’s “Heroines” — fifteen stream-of-consciousness monologues written in the voices of major women of literature and history, including the Virgin Mary, Sappho, Cinderella, Penelope, Delilah, and Helen of Troy, translated by Norman MacAfee and appearing here in their English-language debut.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Softcover with dust jacket\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 180\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e Approx. 20.5 × 28 cm\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrations:\u003c\/strong\u003e Throughout in black-and-white and colour\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e MIT Press \/ Grey Art Gallery, New York University, 1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdited by:\u003c\/strong\u003e Shelley Rice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Good used condition. Dust jacket shows surface wear, edge rubbing, softened corners, and light handling marks. Interior pages clean and complete.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShipping and handling included in listed price.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The New Rare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53615583691090,"sku":"CAHUN-MITPRESS-CAT-1999","price":55.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Cahun_Claude._Deren_Maya._Sherman_Cindy._Inverted_Odysseys._1999.jpg?v=1780301582"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/cindy-sherman.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}