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Nipple with Diamond

Date1990-1991

Illustration CitationPortfolio: 'House Without Walls', The Buhl Family Foundation

MediumChromogenic process

Dimensionsimage: 8 5/8 × 13 in. (21.9 × 33 cm)
sheet: 10 15/16 × 13 15/16 in. (27.8 × 35.4 cm)

Credit LineGift of Raymond W. Merritt, 2003

Object number2004-5

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Label TextThis work is part of Sherman's Sex series in which the artist engaged the vocabulary of pornography. The photographs feature lurid color, glossy finish and close-ups of female body parts. The Sex series was produced in the wake of the culture wars over NEA-funded projects by Andres Serrano and Robert Mapplethorpe. In defiance of those demanding the censorship of "obscenity" in art, Sherman posed plastic medical dummies in provocative and disturbing ways.