Francesca Woodman and the Kantian Sublime

By Claire Raymond

Book Overview

In her feminist inquiry into aesthetics and the gender dynamics of the Kantian sublime, Claire Raymond studies the photography of Francesca Woodman (1958-1981). Placing Woodman in a lineage of women artists such as Julia Margaret Cameron and Clementina Viscountess Hawarden, Raymond moves beyond biographical interpretations of Woodman's self-portraits. Rather, Woodman is revealed as a conceptually sophisticated artist whose work engages with debates about Enlightenment aesthetics, and the gendering and engendering of the sublime.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0754663442
• ISBN13: 9780754663447
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"