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Francesca Woodman : the artist's books.

Title
Francesca Woodman : the artist's books.
Author
Woodman, Francesca, 1958-1981
Publication
  • [London] : MACK, [2023]
  • ©2023

Details

Description
412 pages : color illustrations, facsimiles; 31 cm
Summary
"Francesca Woodman made her first mature photographs at the age of thirteen and went on to create a body of work that has been critically acclaimed for its singularity of style and innovative approach to photography. Despite her lifetime accomplishments - which included solo and group exhibitions and the publication of one of her books - and her work being celebrated widely in the years since her untimely death in 1981, very little has been published about her remarkable series of artist's books until now. Francesca Woodman: The Artist's Books collects for the first time every page of all eight of Francesca Woodman's unique artist's books in one comprehensive volume, including two newly discovered books which have never been seen before, alongside better-known titles such as Some Disordered Interior Geometries. The basis of these works is in tattered nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century journals and notebooks that Woodman collected from bookshops and flea markets in Rome in the late 1970s. She later transformed these found volumes, attaching her prints, transparencies, and written annotations to their evocative pages. These books demonstrate a sophisticated relationship to narrative and sequence and offer a new understanding of the scope of Woodman's engagement with the book form."--Publisher's website (viewed June 6, 2023)
Alternative Title
Artist's books
Subject
  • Woodman, Francesca, 1958-1981
  • Woodman, Francesca, 1958-1981
  • Artists' books
  • Photography, Artistic
  • Livres d'artistes
  • Photographie artistique
  • bookworks
  • art photography
  • Artists' books
  • Photography, Artistic
Genre/Form
  • artists' books (books)
  • photobooks.
  • Photobooks
  • Artists' books
  • Artists' books.
  • Photobooks.
  • Livres d'artistes.
  • Livres de photographies.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Some disordered interior geometries (1980) -- Quaderno dei dettati e dei temi (1978-1980) -- Quaderno (1978) -- Untitled (Pilgrim Mills) (1977-1978) -- Angels, calendar notebook (1977-1978) -- Portraits, friends, equations (1977-1978) -- Untitled (Self-deceit) (1978) -- Portrait of a reputation (1976-1977) -- Francesca Woodman's artists books: a primer in poetry and pictures.
ISBN
  • 9781913620882
  • 1913620883
OCLC
1373397177
Author
Woodman, Francesca, 1958-1981, photographer.
Title
Francesca Woodman : the artist's books.
Edition
First edition.
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
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