Joanna Frueh

Joanna Frueh
Born 1948
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Nationality American
Education Ph.D. University of Chicago
Known for Feminist criticism
Performance art
Contemporary Art history
Notable work Monster Beauty: Building the Body of Love
Website http://www.joannafrueh.com

Joanna Frueh (born 1948) is an artist, writer and feminist scholar.[1] In 2008 she was awarded a Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award.[2] Her book Monster Beauty: Building the Body of Love, dealing with the aesthetics of beauty, pleasure and the erotic in everyday life was published by the University of California Press. Her writing combines theory with autobiography, photography, and poetry to develop these concepts.[3][4][5] She is also a performance artist.[6] Frueh received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in History of Culture. She is Professor of Art History Emerita at the University of Nevada, Reno, where she served from 1990 to 2006. Prior to that she was Assistant Professor of art history at Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, (1983-1985) and the University of Arizona, Tucson (1981-1983).[7][8] She has authored and edited several books, notably Erotic Faculties (University of California Press, 1996) and Hannah Wilke: A Retrospective (1989); and coeditor of Picturing the Modern Amazon (2000), Feminist Art Criticism: Art, Identity, Action (1994), and Feminist Art Criticism: An Anthology (1991).[9][10] She has written articles and reviews for Art in America, Art Journal, AfterImage, High Performance Magazine, and New Art Examiner, among others.[11]

Early life

Frueh was born in Chicago, Illinois to Erne Rene Frueh and Florence (Pass) Frueh.

Education

Frueh received her Bachelor of Art from Sarah Lawrence College, in 1970; a Master of Arts from the University of Chicago, in 1971. and her PhD, from the University of Chicago, in 1981.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Voices: Joanna Frueh". University of Illinois, Chicago. Retrieved 2 January 2017.
  2. ↑ Women's Caucus for Art. "Honor Awards for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts" (PDF). Retrieved 2 January 2017.
  3. ↑ Raven, Arlene (1991). Feminist Art Criticism: An Anthology. Westview Press. Retrieved 2 January 2017.
  4. ↑ Freuh, Joanna (2001). Monster/Beauty Building the Body of Love. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520221147. Retrieved 2 January 2017.
  5. ↑ Buszek, Maria Elena. "Mirror, Mirror: Joanna Frueh as Fairy Stepmother". Project Muse. Johns Hopkins University. Retrieved 2 January 2017.
  6. ↑ Augsburg, Tanya (2011). "The Concupiscent Performer: Joanna Frueh's "Art of Seduction"". The Drama Review. 55 (2): 86–103. Retrieved 2 January 2017.
  7. ↑ Regan, Margaret. "Desert Metamorphosis: Joanna Frueh's performance piece kicks off the second annual 'Her Shorts' festival". Tucson Weekly. Retrieved 20 January 2017.
  8. ↑ "University of Arizona School of Art Faculty Exhibition 2007" (PDF). University of Arizona. Retrieved 20 January 2017.
  9. ↑ "Best Books: Erotic Faculties". Publisher's Weekly. 1996. Retrieved 2 January 2017.
  10. ↑ Frueh, Joanna (1996). Erotic Faculties. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520200821. Retrieved 2 January 2017.
  11. ↑ Frueh, Joanna (2008). Clairvoyance (For Those In The Desert): Performance Pieces, 1979–2004. Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-4040-9. Retrieved 2 January 2017.
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