Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...What I could not say was that I did not know how to do it. Every day, the inability inspired waves of remorse and self-loathing. But in my fearfulness, I stayed willfully ignorant of alcoholism. I would walk out of the room if a television commercial mentioned the subject. I was convinced that getting sober was merely a matter of personal willpower -- and that, through some unfixable flaws of character, I lacked the power. I never wanted to be reminded of what was, to my mind, a moral affliction. Who would...
...past year, Sherman has begun to lessen her presence in her work. Her new subject is food. One piece, which she privately calls "Bulimia at the Beach," depicts a repulsive mixture of vegetable soup and crushed cupcakes. Sherman appears only in a reflection in the mirrored sunglasses on the sand. In her most recent photographs, Sherman is completely absent from the tableau. She has surrendered her "canvas" entirely to a mixture of hotdogs and wind-up toys in one, and a mask full of decayed dog food in another...
Sherman likes to keep moving forward, to constantly change her work. "I don't like to repeat myself," she says. She plans to go back to smaller size works and continue to restrain using herself as a subject. When asked what it feels like to be so young and have achieved so much success, Sherman responds with characteristic unpretentiousness. She says she tries to keep thing in perspective by separating herself from the artist who gets so much publicity. "I just don't feel like I'm the intellectual behind it all," she says...
...some of that respect didn't come through then I was a colossal failure. But your best authority on that subject would have beren the majority of my players. Jape Shattuck...
...course, some of the Big, Serious Oscar-winners won fair and square. "The Killing Fields" and "Platoon" did justice to their subject matter. They were also exciting and entertaining. Every year, those of us in living room seats will root for other exciting, entertaining movies. And every year, we'll be disappointed. It just doesn't seem fair that the Best Picture Award so frequently goes not to the best movie, but to the best movie with a "relevant" topic...