Cindy Sherman, Thomas Ruff, Frank Montero: 1000 Caras, 0 Caras, 1 Rostro/1000 Faces, 0 Faces, 1 Face

Mosquera, Gerardo & Cindy Sherman & Thomas Ruff & Frank Montero

ISBN 10: 8415303157 / ISBN 13: 9788415303152

Published by La Fabrica (Fábrica) / Fundacion Telefonica (Fundacià n Telefà nica), 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cindy Sherman, Thomas Ruff, Frank Montero: 1000 Caras, 0 Caras, 1 Rostro/1000 Faces, 0 Faces, 1 Face
• Publisher: La Fabrica (Fábrica) / Fundacion Telefonica (Fundacià n Telefà nica)
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8415303157
• ISBN 13: 9788415303152
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

1000 Faces/0 Faces/One Face unites two great contemporary artists who have interrogated constructions of identity with an entirely unknown late-nineteenth-century photographer named Frank Montero. Its thesis runs as follows: in Cindy Sherman’s manipulations of generic casting we encounter a face that produces all faces; in Thomas Ruff’s proliferating but depersonalized portraits, we all encounter all faces reduced to a zero degree; and in Montero, we encounter a face that plays the role of itself, throughout the inscriptions wrought upon it by time. Montero’s work, seemingly made without artistic intentions or ambitions, and published here for the first time, provides a sort of Rembrandt-like counterpoint to the identity arguments made by Ruff and Sherman’s work, and alongside them makes for the most fascinating panorama of the absolute constructedness of the photographic portrait and the eerie artifice of identity itself.