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Joanna Frueh
Joanna Frueh in India, 2008
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][2]

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.[3] Their two successive homes in Highland Park were designed by architects Crombie Taylor and Robert Tague.[4]

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.[5][2]

Career

She was the director of Artemisia Gallery, in Chicago, one of the earliest women's art galleries in the United States during 1974–1976.[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.[6][7][8] She was also a performance artist.[9]

Frueh 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).[2][10][11] She wrote articles and reviews for Art in America, Art Journal, AfterImage, High Performance Magazine, and New Art Examiner, among others.[12]

Freuh was also a photographer and performance artist; many of her photographs are collaborative self-portraits. Her work was exhibited internationally.[2]

Teaching

She was Professor of Art History Emerita at the University of Nevada, Reno, where she served from 1990 to 2006.[5] 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).[13][14]

Awards

Frueh was awarded a Women's Caucus for Art Honor Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts in 2008.[2]

Published works

Books

  • BRUMAS: A Rock Star's Passage to a Life Re-Vamped. Includes series of black-and-white self-portrait photos shot by Glascock and Glascock. Oberlin, Ohio and Ukiah, California: Freshcut Press, 1982.[15]
  • Hannah Wilke: A Retrospective. With Hannah Wilke and Thomas H. Kochheiser. St. Louis, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1989.[15]
  • 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, New York: Routledge, 2019.[2]
  • New Feminist Criticism: Art, Identity, Action. Co-edited with Arlene Raven and Cassandra L. Langer. New York, New York: Icon Editions, 1993.[2]
  • Erotic Faculties. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1996.[2]
  • Picturing the Modern Amazon. With the New Museum of Contemporary Art. New York, New York: Rizzoli, 1999.[15]
  • Monster/Beauty: Building the Body of Love. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 2001.[2]
  • The Glamour of Being Real. Tucson: ErneRené Press, 2013.[15]
  • Joanna Frueh: A Retrospective. With Tanya Augsburg and Sheppard Fine Art Gallery. Reno, Nevada: Nevada Museum of Art, 2005.[15]
  • Swooning Beauty: A Memoir of Pleasure. Reno, Nevada: University of Nevada Press, 2006.[2]
  • Clairvoyance (For Those In The Desert): Performance Pieces, 1979-2004. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2008.[2]
  • Unapologetic Beauty. With Frances Murray. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2019.[15]

Death

Frueh died in Tucson, Arizona on February 20, 2020, due to complications from breast cancer.[5][16] Her archives are at Stanford University Library Special Collections.[17]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Voices: Joanna Frueh". University of Illinois, Chicago. Retrieved January 2, 2017.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Augsburg, Tanya. "Joanna Frueh" (PDF). Women's Caucus for Arts. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
  3. ^ https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2000-03-09-0003090308-story.html/
  4. ^ https://explore.chicagocollections.org/image/artic/85/v11wb4t/
  5. ^ a b c "Joanna Frueh (1948–2020)". ARTFORUM. Retrieved July 28, 2020.
  6. ^ Raven, Arlene (1991). Feminist Art Criticism: An Anthology. Westview Press. Retrieved January 2, 2017.
  7. ^ Freuh, Joanna (2001). Monster/Beauty Building the Body of Love. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520221147. Retrieved January 2, 2017.
  8. ^ Buszek, Maria Elena. "Mirror, Mirror: Joanna Frueh as Fairy Stepmother". Project Muse. Johns Hopkins University. Retrieved January 2, 2017.
  9. ^ Augsburg, Tanya (2011). "The Concupiscent Performer: Joanna Frueh's "Art of Seduction"". The Drama Review. 55 (2): 86–103. Retrieved January 2, 2017.
  10. ^ "Best Books: Erotic Faculties". Publisher's Weekly. 1996. Retrieved January 2, 2017.
  11. ^ Frueh, Joanna (1996). Erotic Faculties. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520200821. Retrieved January 2, 2017.
  12. ^ Frueh, Joanna (2008). Clairvoyance (For Those In The Desert): Performance Pieces, 1979–2004. Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-4040-9. Retrieved January 2, 2017.
  13. ^ Regan, Margaret. "Desert Metamorphosis: Joanna Frueh's performance piece kicks off the second annual 'Her Shorts' festival". Tucson Weekly. Retrieved January 20, 2017.
  14. ^ "University of Arizona School of Art Faculty Exhibition 2007" (PDF). University of Arizona. Retrieved January 20, 2017.
  15. ^ a b c d e f "Selected publications from the results for 'joanna frueh' [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved March 29, 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  16. ^ https://www.upress.umn.edu/press/press-releases/joanna-frueh-trailblazing-writer-performance-artist-scholar-and-art-historian-dies-at-72
  17. ^ https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/12721687
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