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Jan 18, 1948 Chicago, Illinois, United States 76 years old
performance artist and feminist scholar
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About Joanna Frueh
- Joanna Frueh (born 1948) is 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 combines theory with autobiography, photography, and poetry to develop these concepts.
- She is also a performance artist.
- 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).
- 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).
- She has written articles and reviews for Art in America, Art Journal, AfterImage, High Performance Magazine, and New Art Examiner, among others.
