Joanna Frueh

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Joanna Frueh


Born
in Chicago, The United States
January 18, 1948

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Joanna Frueh (1948-2020) was an artist, writer and feminist scholar. In 2008 she was awarded a Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award. 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. She was also a performance artist.

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, (1
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Average rating: 3.81 · 63 ratings · 9 reviews · 13 distinct works
Erotic Faculties

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Monster/Beauty: Building th...

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Picturing The Modern Amazon...

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Swooning Beauty: A Memoir O...

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New Feminist Criticism: Art...

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Unapologetic Beauty

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Clairvoyance (For Those in ...

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The Glamour Of Being Real

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A Short Story About a Big H...

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Brumas, a rock star's passa...

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