| Francesca Woodman and the Kantian Sublime Contributor(s): Raymond, Claire (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138246689 ISBN-13: 9781138246683 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $66.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | History - General - Biography & Autobiography |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.60 lbs) 186 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| 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. |