“在即将于2012年在纽约现代艺术博物馆举行的辛迪•谢尔曼（Cindy Sherman）回顾展之际，我们很高兴展示她最奇特的摄影系列之一“小丑”。在将近四十年的时间里，她用“角色肖像”震惊了艺术界——她的《历史肖像画》和《无题电影剧照》是概念肖像画的里程碑——她在《小丑》中探索了恐怖的大笑和可笑的东西。谢尔曼说：“我接触小丑这个主题是为了展示一个画出来的笑脸背后的复杂的情感深渊。”

这本书介绍了这个完整的摄影系列，包含2003年至2004年拍摄的18张彩色照片，证明了她是当代最杰出和最有影响力的艺术家之一的声誉。”

"On the occasion of the upcoming Cindy Sherman retrospective exhibition in the New York Museum of Modern Art in 2012, we are pleased to present one of her most fanciful photographic series, Clowns. Having astonished the art world with her "role portraits" for almost 40 years--

her History Portraits and Untitled Film Stills are milestones of conceptual portraiture--she explores the horror of laughter and the laughable in Clowns. Sherman said: "I came to clowns to show the complex emotional abysses of a painted smile."

This volume presents the entire series of eighteen color photographs created between 2003 and 2004, which justify her reputation as one of the most outstanding and influential artists of our time."