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Cindy Sherman's work is structured into series, the best known of which are History Portraits and Untitled Film Stills (1977-1980), which led to Cindy Sherman's artistic breakthrough. In History Portraits, the artist carries out radical transformations of Old Master paintings. Using make-up, cloth drapes, and prostheses, she photographs herself in the poses in which the Old Masters portrayed women. Christa Schneider presents an art-historical analysis of the History Portraits. Identifying a clear model for every single portrait (e.g. Botticelli and Rubens, François Boucher and Jacques-Louis David), she reveals Sherman's extremely precise and enigmatic method of working in which the artistic media employed by Sherman, photography and acting, are surprisingly compatible with painting.

MAD-faculty 13 --- Sherman, Cindy --- fotografie --- schilderkunst --- Art and photography --- Photographic criticism --- Photographie --- Portrait --- Sherman, Cindy. --- Criticism and interpretation --- Sherman, Cindy. - History portraits --- Sherman, Cindy - Criticism and interpretation