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Danto, Arthur C. | August 15, 1987 issue

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The article focuses on the work of artist Cindy Sherman. Though the works of Cindy Sherman must be classed as photographs, and depend for their effect in part on the fact that they are photographs, photography is not her medium. The standard photographic situation, however flaunted by artists, is that of a picture which represents its cause by looking like it. The premise of photography is that it is a pictorial record, its image steeped in the visual reality that occasioned it. In Sherman's art, this premise is exploited to enhance the illusion at which it aims.

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ART; SHERMAN, Cindy; ARTISTS; PHOTOGRAPHS; PHOTOGRAPHY; PICTURES
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