Cindy Sherman frames analysis

SUBJECTIVE FRAME Born 1954. Attended State University College at Buffalo, NY, majored in art, and received a bachelor's degree in 1976. "It wasn't until college that I had any concept of what was going on in the art world. My idea of being an artist as a kid was a courtroom artist or one of those boardwalk artists who do caricatures. My parents had a book of, like, the one hundred one beautiful paintings, which included Dali …

…commentary, it has simply departed from capturing the ideal." ~ http://www.temple.edu/photo/photographers/cindy/sherman.htm Andy Warhol: "She's good enough to be a real actress." Critic Amelia Jones: "Art historians and critics have claimed her as an artist/genius who excavates the human consciousness or as a producer of work exemplifying a postmodern culture of simulation, a feminist negotiation of the male gaze, or the condition of the abject in artistic practice."