Francesca Woodman and the Kantian Sublime

di Claire Raymond (Autore)

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2010

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.

• Autore: Claire Raymond
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Anno: 2010
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 186 p.
• Dimensioni: 234 x 156 mm
• Peso: 544 gr.
• EAN: 9780754663447

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