Francesca Woodman and the Kantian Sublime Contributor(s): Raymond, Claire (Author) |
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ISBN: 0754663442 ISBN-13: 9780754663447 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $190.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2010 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Art | History - General - Biography & Autobiography |
Dewey: B |
LCCN: 2009053878 |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.97 lbs) 186 pages |
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Publisher Description: In her feminist inquiry into aesthetics and the sublime, Claire Raymond reinterprets the work of the American photographer Francesca Woodman (1958-1981). Placing Woodman in a lineage of women artists beginning with nineteenth-century photographers Julia Margaret Cameron and Clementina, Viscountess Hawarden, Raymond compels a reconsideration of Woodman's achievement in light of the gender dynamics of the sublime. Raymond argues that Woodman's photographs of decrepit architecture allegorically depict the dissolution of the frame, a dissolution Derrida links to theories of the sublime in Kant's Critique of Judgement. Woodman's self-portraits, Raymond contends, test the parameters of the gaze, a reading that departs from the many analyses of Woodman's work that emphasize her dramatic biography. Woodman is here revealed as a conceptually sophisticated artist whose deployment of allegory and allusion engages a broader debate about Enlightenment aesthetics, and the sublime. |