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Francesca Woodman and the Kantian Sublime
Claire Raymond
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paperback. Num Pages: 186 pages. BIC Classification: AJB; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
186
Condition
New
Number of Pages
186
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781138246683
SKU
V9781138246683
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About Claire Raymond
Claire Raymond teaches in the Studies in Women and Gender Program at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA
Reviews for Francesca Woodman and the Kantian Sublime
'Finally, a profoundly aesthetic reading of photography's most ravishing and demanding femme-enfant. Anyone beguiled by Francesca Woodman will be grateful to Claire Raymond for this strikingly intelligent, haunting tribute to Woodman's uncanny and troubling art.' Maria DiBattista, Princeton University, USA 'While there has been a steady accumulation of critical responses to Woodman‘s work since the 1980s, Claire Raymonds ... Read more