Erotic Faculties

"Joanna Frueh's work is risky, lascivious, fluid, accessible, personal, theoretical, and very beautiful. She does what few other art historians have the nerve to do and that is to conflate theory with lived and erotic experience."—Barbara De Genevieve, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

 

"This is the strongest, most powerful book I have read in a long time. . . . It initiates a kind of writing, or opens a kind of fissure in writing, that needs to be opened, and the example of this book will, especially among women writers, serve to facilitate that opening. To borrow one of the essay's titles, I think it will literally be the 'mouth piece' of a new kind of critical practice."—Henry Sayre, Oregon State University

 

"The book is luminous, embodied, puts thought where lived experience and theory merge."—Carolee Schneemann

About the author

Joanna Frueh is an art historian and performance artist who is Professor of Art History Emerita at the University of Nevada, Reno. She is the author of Hannah Wilke: A Retrospective and coeditor of Feminist Art Criticism: An Anthology and New Feminist Criticism: Art, Identity, Action.

Product details

• Authors: Joanna Frueh, Frueh Joanna
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9780520363144
• ISBN: 978-0-520-36314-4
• No. of pages: 228
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Gender studies, gender groups, Literary theory