1st Edition
Francesca Woodman's Dark Gaze The Diazotypes and Other Late Works
List of Color Plates v
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The End of Art and the Question of Legibility
1 The Dark Gaze, Blanchot’s Postwar Aesthetic
2 Caryatids and Silent Girls
3 Sanctuaries and Architectonics
4 Wite-Out: Spectral Geometry and Disorderly Interiors
5 Portrait of a Reputation
6 Photography, After Fashion
Conclusion: Hauntings
Works Cited
Index
Biography
Claire Raymond teaches Art History at the University of Virginia, USA. She is the author of Francesca Woodman and the Kantian Sublime (Ashgate, 2010) and Witnessing Sadism in Texts of the American South (Ashgate, 2014).
Francesca Woodman's Dark Gaze is a luminous investigation of the haunting, monumental "late" works of an artist who would not survive to her twenty-third birthday. Claire Raymond reveals how, at the turn of the millenium, Woodman was in the process of a fierce engagement with experimental photography, the history of art and architecture, and the very nature of image making itself.
Elizabeth Otto, The University of Buffalo, State University of New York, USA, author of Tempo, Tempo! The Bauhaus Photomontages of Marianne BrandtClaire Raymond provides a welcome opportunity to delve into the lesser-known sides of Woodman: a chance to revel in the material richness of her oeuvre more than the tragic aspects of her life. Raymond creates new discourses within and between the works, involving architecture, color, and texts that provide a feast for the eye and mind.
Vanessa Rocco, Southern New Hampshire University, USA, co-editor of The New Woman International: Representations in Photography and Film from the 1870s through the 1960s
