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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 workMonster Beauty: Building the Body of Love
Spouse(s)Thomas Kochheiser, Russell Dudley, Kathleen G. Williamson
Websitehttp://www.joannafrueh.com

Joanna Frueh (1948–2020) was 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 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]

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

  • 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.
  • 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.

Selected essays

While all of these essays are listed on WorldCat, some of the publishing details in WorldCat are incomplete. The end notes indicate the sources of the supplemental publishing details. All of the essays are included in anthologies. A thorough list of Frueh's essays and articles is included in her online resume.[17]

  • "Aesthetic and Post-Menopausal Pleasures." In M/E/A/N/I/N/G: An Anthology of Artists’ Writings, Theory, and Criticism, edited by Mira Schor and Susan Bee, 59–67. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2000.[18]
  • "The Bed of the Fairy Princess." In Truth in Nonfiction: Essays, edited by David Lazar, 123–131. Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 2009.[19]
  • "The Sphinx Unwinds Her Own Sweet Self." In Contemporary Art and Classical Myth, edited by Isabelle Loring Wallace and Jennie Hirsh, 313–337. New York, New York: Routledge, 2011.[20]
  • "Visible Differences: Women Artists and Aging," In The Other Within Us: Feminist Explorations of Women and Aging, edited by Marilyn Pearsall, 197–219. New York, New York: Routledge, 2019.[21]

Performances

PERFORMANCES 2016 The Specificity of Things That Don’t Matter (presented as a video piece) Bátorság [Courage], Summer University of the Feldmár Institute, Bátonyterenye, Három Kincs Völgye, Hungary

2013 A Short Story about a Big Healing Fluxx, Tucson, AZ. Music composed and performed by Kathleen Williamson.

2012 The Glamour of Being Real. University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV Pima County Tucson Women’s Commission, Tucson, AZ. Music composed and performed by Kathleen Williamson.

2010 I AM Desire Club Congress evening of performances, Tucson, AZ Maiden Elder The Question of the Girl session, National Women’s Studies Assocation conference, Denver, CO

2009 Sexual Advances Cabinet, Brooklyn, NY Performances Galore session, College Art Association conference, Los Angeles, CA (excerpt) Tucson Yoga, Tucson, AZ

2008 Goddess of Roses Out of Bounds conference, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Shelly Steffee, New York, NY A Flowering of Vision Out of Bounds conference, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

2007 Goddess of Roses University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ Shaking Out the Dead PerformIT, Tucson, AZ, Metropolitan State College, Denver, CO Shaking Out the Dead (excerpted version) Session chair, Occupying Our Hearts: Performing Self-Transformation through Feminist Art, College Art Association Conference, New York, NY The Sphinx Unwinds Her Own Sweet Self Columbia College, Chicago, IL

2006 Swooning Beauty Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO Chico State University, Chico, CA

2005 Ambrosia Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV Beauty Loves Company Hannah Wilke: The Rhetoric of the Pose session, Bodies in the Making: Transgressions and Transformations conference, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA The Performance of Pink Collision: A Symposium on Interarts and Interdisciplinary Practices, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada

2004 Ambrosia The Alphonso Lingis Conference on A Postmodern Ethics of Joy and Coronation Glory, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada The Performance of Pink Keynote speaker, Point of View 2004: Sexuality in a Diverse Society conference, Boise State University, Boise, ID

2003 The Aesthetics of Orgasm Ohio University, Athens, OH (Presented as a reading. Not in costume.) University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV Epiphany without End In-class performance, B.F.A. Seminar, University of Nevada, Reno The Performance of Pink Making an Appearance: Fashion, Dress and Consumption conference, Brisbane, Australia The Sake of Angels In-class performance, Contemporary Art, University of Nevada, Reno To Carolee: In Apologia; Give Something to Someone In-class performance, Contemporary Art, University of Nevada, Reno Voyaging to Cythera In-class performance, B.F.A. Seminar, University of Nevada, Reno

2002 The Aesthetics of Orgasm The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada The Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, FL Plenary session, Beyond Sex and Gender: The Future of Women’s Studies? conference, organized by the Women’s Studies Network, UK, Belfast, Northern Ireland


2001 Bloodred Beauty: A Meditation on Mel Gibson’s Midlife Allure Loughborough University, Loughborough, England School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV

2000 The Amorous Stepmother Learning in Mind and Body session, College Art Association conference, New York, NY The Passionate Wife, the Passionate Daughter University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV Monster/Beauty Plenary session, American Society for Aesthetics annual meeting, Reno, NV Vaginal Aesthetics Plenary session, Uncommon Senses conference, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

1999 Giving a Fuck University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV Vaginal Aesthetics Dinnerware Fine Art Gallery, Tucson, AZ University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV (Double bill with Giving a Fuck.) 1998 Collecting Myself Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM Giving a Fuck Censorship: For Shame session, College Art Association conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada The Real Nude Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY

1997 Dressing Aphrodite The Style Conference, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV Keynote speaker, Subject to Desire: Refiguring the Body conference, SUNY-New Paltz, New Paltz, NY University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ Erotic Faculties (White) University of Maine, Augusta, Maine

1996 Erotic Faculties (Red) University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL University of Vermont, Burlington, VT

Erotic Faculties (White) Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY Santa Monica Museum, Santa Monica, CA University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV Midlife Bodybuilding as Aesthetic Discipline Performative Activisms: Alternative Playgrounds panel, Politics and Languages of Contemporary Marxism conference, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA Monster/Beauty: Midlife Bodybuilding as Aesthetic Discipline Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Carbondale, IL Women and Aging: Bodies, Cultures, Generations conference, Center for Twentieth Century Studies, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI Pleasure and Pedagogy: The Professor’s Body Sexuality and Pedagogy panel, College Art Association conference, Boston, MA

1995 Always Aphrodite Performed in Evolution F: The Female Body Electric; A Celebration of Muscle, Manhattan Center, New York, NY

1994 Egon Schiele’s Monster/Beauty Perspectives on Schiele symposium, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN Erotic Faculties Keynote speaker, Lighting Out: Women and Creative Process conference, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ Fuck Theory Rencontres panel, Women’s Caucus for Art conference, New York, NY Polymorphous Perversities: Female Pleasures and the Postmenopausal Artist School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Women and Photography conference, Houston, TX Pythia Keynote speaker, Society for Photographic Education southwestern regional conference, Tucson, AZ International Center of Photography, New York, NY (Presented as a reading. Not in costume.) Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, Reno, NV Mouth Piece Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

1993 Mouth Piece The LAB, San Francisco, CA Oracular Voice Artists Voices panel, Montage International Student Festival, Brockport, NY


Polymorphous Perversities: Female Pleasures and the Postmenopausal Artist Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ Works Gallery, San Jose, CA

1992 Faculties of Love Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI Weber State University, Ogden, UT Fuck Theory Postmodernism in the Classroom: What Are We Talking About? panel, Society for Photographic Education conference, Washington, D.C. Language of Love Ideas, Words, and Images panel, Women’s Caucus for Art conference, Chicago, IL Mouth Piece Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA Silver Tongues Untie the (K)-n-o-t-s Empowerment/Quality/Action: Issues of the ‘90s panel, International Association of Art Critics, USA (AICA) at College Art Association conference, Chicago, IL Speech-O-My-Heart Beacon Street Theater, Chicago, IL Visible Difference: Women Artists and Aging Society for Photographic Education western regional conference, Santa Barbara, CA

1991 Faculties of Love University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL The Language of War and the Language of Miracles Centenary College, Shreveport, LA Columbia College, Chicago, IL Rhetoric as Canon Open Session panel, College Art Association conference, Washington, D.C.

1990 Amazing Grace With Russell Dudley Site specific outdoor location, Rochester, NY Duel/Duet With Christine Tamblyn Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA (Yolanda Lopez participated in this performance.) Women's Caucus for Art conference, New York, NY Jeez Louise Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

Mouth Piece Penn State University, State College, PA Vampiric Strategies NAME Gallery, Chicago, IL

1989 Duel/Duet With Christine Tamblyn NAME Gallery, Chicago, IL Holocaust of Hearts or I Believe University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY Jeez Louise Centenary College, Shreveport, LA Mouth Piece Columbia College Dance Center, Chicago, IL V ermilion Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ

1988 Has the Body Lost Its Mind? Theory panel, The Way We Look, The Way We See: Art Criticism for Women in the ‘90s conference, Los Angeles, CA Jeez Louise ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL Washington University, St. Louis, MO Poses of Power: The Female Artist as Hero(ine), Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO

1987 Poses of Power: the Female Artist as Hero(ine) Art panel, Midwest Women’s Studies Association conference, St. Louis, MO Words of Love The Women's Movement as Source for Work panel, Passages: Impact of Four Decades symposium, Fresno, CA Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ Clairvoyance (For Those In The Desert) With Thomas Kochheiser Sheldon Memorial Theater, St. Louis, MO

1986 A Few Erotic Faculties, 1986 Dinnerware Artists Cooperative Gallery, Tucson, AZ Washington University, St. Louis, MO

Poses of Power: The Female Artist as Hero(ine) Columbia College, Chicago, IL Women, Art, and Power panel, Rutgers University, (performed at 3 campuses) Camden, Newark, and New Brunswick, NJ University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ There Is a Myth Angry: A Speakout forum, College Art Association conference, New York, NY

1985 Solar Shores With Thomas Kochheiser University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ

1984 Justifiable Anger With Thomas Kochheiser Cochise Fine Arts, Bisbee, AZ Dinnerware Artists Cooperative Gallery, Tucson, AZ Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL

1982 BRUMAS With Thomas Kochheiser Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL

1980 Shadows in the Dark Chamber Nancy Lurie Gallery, Chicago, IL

1979 The Concupiscent Critic Deson Gallery, Chicago, IL

Solo Exhibitions

2008 Joanna in the Desert, selected photos

2005 Joanna Frueh: A Retrospective The Scholar's Touch, large scale projection

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.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  17. ^ http://www.joannafrueh.com/gdresources/media/JoannaFrueh_Resume.pdf
  18. ^ Schor, Mira and Susan Bee. "M⁄E⁄A⁄N⁄I⁄N⁄G: An Anthology of Artists' Writings, Theory, and Criticism". Duke University Press. Retrieved April 1, 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  19. ^ Lazar, David. "Truth in Nonfiction: Essays". University of Iowa Press. Retrieved April 1, 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  20. ^ Wallace, Isabelle Loring and Jennie Hirsh. "Contemporary Art and Classical Myth". Routledge. Retrieved April 1, 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  21. ^ Pearsall, Marilyn. "The Other Within Us: Feminist Explorations Of Women And Aging". Routledge. Retrieved April 1, 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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