Joanna Frueh

Joanna Frueh (1948–2020) was an artist, writer and feminist scholar.[1] She was the director of Artemisia Gallery, in Chicago, one of the earliest women's art galleries in the United States during 1974-1976. 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 combined theory with autobiography, photography, and poetry to develop these concepts.[3][4][5] She was also a performance artist.[6] Frueh received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in History of Culture. She was 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 authored and edited several books, notably Erotic Faculties (University of California Press, 1996) and Hannah Wilke: A Retrospective (1989); and was coeditor of Picturing the Modern Amazon (2000), Feminist Art Criticism: Art, Identity, Action (1994), and Feminist Art Criticism: An Anthology (1991).[9][10] She wrote articles and reviews for Art in America, Art Journal, AfterImage, High Performance Magazine, and New Art Examiner, among others.[11] Joanna Frueh died in Tucson, Arizona on February 20, 2020, due to complications from breast cancer.[12] Her archives are at Stanford University Library Special Collections. [13]

Joanna Frueh
BornJanuary 18, 1948
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Died(2020-02-20)February 20, 2020
Tucson, Arizona, USA
Resting placeTucson, Arizona, USA
NationalityAmerican
EducationPh.D. University of Chicago
Known forFeminist criticism
Performance art
Contemporary Art history
Notable work
Monster Beauty: Building the Body of Love
Spouse(s)Thomas Kochheiser, Russell Dudley, Kathleen G. Williamson
Websitehttp://www.joannafrueh.com

Early life

Frueh was born on January 18, 1948 in Chicago, Illinois to Erne Rene Frueh and Florence (Pass) Frueh. Both parents were well educated, her father in visual arts and her mother was a classical pianist. Together they authored a book about Chicago stained glass, which was published by Loyola University Press in 1983. [14] Their two successive homes in Highland Park were designed by architects Crombie Taylor and Robert Tague. [15]

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.

Published works[16]

Books
  • BRUMAS: A Rock Star's Passage to a Life Re-Vamped. Oberlin, OH and Ukiah, CA: Freshcut Press, 1982. Includes series of b/w self-portrait photos shot by Glascock and Glascock.
  • Hannah Wilke: A Retrospective. With Hannah Wilke and Thomas H. Kochheiser. St. Louis, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1989.
  • Feminist Art Criticism: An Anthology. Co-edited with Arlene Raven and Cassandra L. Langer. New York, New York: Icon Editions, 1991. Second edition. New York, NY: Routledge, 2019.
  • New Feminist Criticism: Art, Identity, Action. Co-edited with Arlene Raven and Cassandra L. Langer. New York, New York: Icon Editions, 1993.
  • Erotic Faculties. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1996.
  • Picturing the Modern Amazon. With the New Museum of Contemporary Art. New York, New York: Rizzoli, 1999.
  • Monster/Beauty: Building the Body of Love. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 2001.
  • The Glamour of Being Real (Tucson: ErneRené Press, 2011).* A Short Story about a Big Healing. Tucson: ErneRené Press, 2013.
  • Joanna Frueh: A Retrospective. With Tanya Augsburg and Sheppard Fine Art Gallery. Reno, Nevado: Nevada Museum of Art, 2005.
  • Swooning Beauty: A Memoir of Pleasure. Reno, Nevada: University of Nevada Press, 2006.
  • Clairvoyance (For Those In The Desert): Performance Pieces, 1979-2004. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2008.
  • Unapologetic Beauty. With Frances Murray. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2019.

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.
  12. https://www.upress.umn.edu/press/press-releases/joanna-frueh-trailblazing-writer-performance-artist-scholar-and-art-historian-dies-at-72
  13. https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/12721687
  14. (See https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2000-03-09-0003090308-story.html/)
  15. (See https://explore.chicagocollections.org/image/artic/85/v11wb4t/)
  16. "Selected publications from the results for 'joanna frueh' [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
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