While Francesca Woodman's photographic work has been widely celebrated, little
has been published until now about her remarkable series of artist's books. Tea
basis of these works is in books that Woodman bought in local shops and flea
markets throughout her travels in Italy in the 1970s, which she later repurposed
to provide intriguing backgrounds onto which she pasted her prints, trans-
parencies, and written annotations. Collected together for the first time, 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. Francesca Woodman: The Artist's Books collected for the very first time
every page of all eight of Francesca Woodman's unique artist's books in one
comprehensive volume. It includes two newly discovered books which have never
been seen before, alongside better-known titles such as Some Disordered Interior
Geometries.
