{"product_id":"francesca-woodman","title":"Francesca Woodman","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eFrom the blurb: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eFrancesca Woodman (1958-1981) was an artist decisively of her time, yet her photographs retain an undeniable immediacy. Thirty years after her death, they continue to inspire a cultlike following of admirers, drawn by the work's dazzling ambiguities and remarkably rich explorations of self-portraiture and the human body in architectural space.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eWoodman began photographing at the age of thirteen. By the time she enrolled at the Rhode Island School of Design in 1975, she was already an accomplished photographer with a singularly mature and focused approach to her work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eAt the age of twenty-two, she committed suicide. Woodman might be merely a tragic footnote in the history of photography were it not for the compelling, complex, and artistically resolved body of work she produced in just nine brilliant years. Woodman also left behind questions that have preoccupied critics and scholars ever since: Was she a prodigy, arriving fully formed as a photographer at a very young age, or was she a student, in the early, experimental phase of a promising career? Was she a feminist, or does her investment in the female form signal something else entirely?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eAnd to what extent does her biography, cut short, bear relevance to her work?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eProduced in conjunction with the first major\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eAmerican exhibition of the artist's work in more than two decades, this catalogue is a landmark reconsideration of Woodman for the twenty-first century. Thoughtfully written and richly illustrated with many previously unpublished photographs, it provides a fresh overview of her achievement and reflects on why her pictures continue to be so profoundly affective long after their making.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eThe exhibition Francesca Woodman is presented at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Francesca Woodman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46871155867802,"sku":"12798","price":1500.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0350\/5704\/1545\/files\/SKM_C55825120909461.jpg?v=1765287560","url":"https:\/\/store.a4arts.org\/en-gb\/products\/francesca-woodman","provider":"A4 Arts Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}