Francesca Woodman Bethany Johns and her painted patterns alluding

and her painted patterns alluding to their young daughter’s fascination with dinosaurs

In addition to reproductions of the exhibited works—each of which is accompanied by a quotation about Bardot by a cultural icon

during which he redefined the conventions of painting by embracing the human subject at a time when abstraction was the contemporary fashion

and close to sixty color plates

including Adler

Francesca Woodman Bethany Johns and her painted patterns alludingThis book was published on the occasion of Francesca Woodman at Gagosian, 555 West 24th Street, New York. The exhibition featured more than fifty lifetime prints made by the artist from approximately 1975 to 1980many of which had not been previously exhibitedincluding three life size diazotype prints from her Caryatid series and Blueprint for a Temple (II) (1980), the largest work she accomplished. The catalogue illustrates all photographs in the