From the Preface: "The essays in Feminist Art Criticism are theoretical, and we selected them for several reasons. First, they show a diversity of concerns. These include spirituality, sexuality, the representation of women in art, the necessary inter-relationship of theory and action, women as artmakers, ethnicity, language itself, so-called postfeminism and critiques of hte art world, the discipline of art history and the practice of art criticism. Second, the contributors' work has not been either widely disseminated or readily available. Third, the essays, especially...
From the Preface: "The essays in Feminist Art Criticism are theoretical, and we selected them for several reasons. First, they show ...
This daring, intensely personal book challenges both conventional and feminist ideas about beauty by asking us to take pleasure in beauty without shame, and to see and feel the erotic in everyday life. Bringing together her varied experiences as a poet, art historian, bodybuilder, and noted performance artist, Joanna Frueh shows us how to move beyond society's equation of youth with beauty toward an aesthetic for the fully erotic human being. A lush combination of autobiography, theory, photography, and poetry, this book continues to develop the ideas about the erotic, beauty, older...
This daring, intensely personal book challenges both conventional and feminist ideas about beauty by asking us to take pleasure in beauty without sham...
The performance artist Joanna Frueh has emerged over the past twenty-five years as a wildly original voice in feminist art. Her uninhibited performances are celebrations of beauty, sensuality, eroticism, and pleasure. "Clairvoyance (For Those In The Desert)," which features eighteen of her essential performance texts, is a celebration of this remarkable artist and her work. Arranged chronologically, from "The Concupiscent Critic" (1979) through "Ambrosia" (2004), the pieces reveal Frueh's evolution as an artist and intellectual over the course of her career. Many of these texts have never...
The performance artist Joanna Frueh has emerged over the past twenty-five years as a wildly original voice in feminist art. Her uninhibited performanc...
The performance artist Joanna Frueh has emerged over the past twenty-five years as a wildly original voice in feminist art. Her uninhibited performances are celebrations of beauty, sensuality, eroticism, and pleasure. "Clairvoyance (For Those In The Desert)," which features eighteen of her essential performance texts, is a celebration of this remarkable artist and her work. Arranged chronologically, from "The Concupiscent Critic" (1979) through "Ambrosia" (2004), the pieces reveal Frueh's evolution as an artist and intellectual over the course of her career. Many of these texts have never...
The performance artist Joanna Frueh has emerged over the past twenty-five years as a wildly original voice in feminist art. Her uninhibited performanc...
