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Art:21 | Cindy Sherman | Season 5 Preview (October 2009)

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Uploaded by on Aug 27, 2009

This video is excerpted from the Season 5 episode "Transformation" premiering on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 10pm (ET) on PBS (check local listings).

Whether satirizing society or reinventing icons of literature, art history, and popular culture, the artists in Transformation—Paul McCarthy, Cindy Sherman, and Yinka Shonibare MBE—inhabit the characters they create and capture the sensibilities of our age.

In self-reflexive photographs and films, Cindy Sherman invents myriad guises, metamorphosing from Hollywood starlet to clown to society matron. Often with the simplest of means—a camera, a wig, makeup, an outfit—Sherman fashions ambiguous but memorable characters that suggest complex lives lived out of frame.

Learn more about Cindy Sherman: http://www.art21.org/artists/cindy-sherman

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  • Where can we watch the full epsiode? Video interviews with Cindy are so rare online!

  • wow art:21 are going all out this season - really big names this time around. They have always had highly popular well known artists but this season just seems .. more ... up market - more recognisable faces. just proves that this program is a very poignant entity in todays art sector

  • lol demention of clowns!

  • cant wait!!!! love Cindy Sherman's work....

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