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Six Contemporary Artists You Need to Know: Cindy Sherman with Dr. Alison Bracker
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This collection of lectures delves into the practices of six international contemporary artists who consistently produce groundbreaking and provocative artworks that have significantly impacted the art of the past 50 years. Each week, we will consider an artist's oeuvre in-depth and grapple with how they respond to such complex issues as freedom of expression, racism, war, identity, and our global refugee and ecological crises.
Lecture 2: Cindy Sherman
Cindy Sherman produces and stars in photographs that challenge cultural constructions of identity and image-making. For decades, she has used theatrical props and disguises to reveal the artifice behind the female identities that film, media, and advertising have long manufactured.
Led by Dr. Alison Bracker, an expert on contemporary art, this course will give participants a deeper understanding and appreciation of some of today's most compelling artists, their most influential artworks, and their cultural legacy.
Dr. Alison Bracker is an independent art historian specializing in modern and contemporary art. She is an expert in the conservation of unusual materials in contemporary art and co-editor of Conservation: Principles, Dilemmas, and Uncomfortable Truths (Elsevier, 2009), praised as "one of the most significant books in the field of heritage conservation." Alison held a six-year post-Doctoral fellowship at the Royal College of Art and Victoria & Albert Museum before taking over the Royal Academy of Arts' Events and Lectures Program, which she ran for eight years. She continues to lecture and publish on modern and contemporary art and artists, including Hugo Wilson, Lenz Geerk, Ai Weiwei, Anselm Kiefer, Édouard Manet, and David Hockney. After a childhood in Los Angeles and 25 years in England, Alison moved to Nice, France, where she now lives and works.
This conversation is suitable for all ages.
90 minutes, including a 30 minute Q&A.
Another fabulous conversation with Alison Bracker. She brings to life the artist and her motivations. Fascinating as are all her conversations!