This is from an episode of State of the Art, a series of documentaries about the visual arts in the 1980s. To buy the DVD, please go to Filmed in Europe, the United States and Australia in 1985-6, the six programmes feature many key artists including -- in addition to Cindy Sherman -- Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Antony Gormley, Hans Haacke, Eric Fischl and Joseph Beuys. The films also explore the intellectual context of the time and the ideas of post-modernism.
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