Unapologetic Beauty
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Unapologetic Beauty
By (Author) Joanna Frueh
By (photographer) Frances Murray
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
1st May 2019
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Portraits and self-portraiture in art
Gender studies: women and girls
Coping with / advice about illness and specific health conditions
778.921
Physical Properties
Paperback
136
Width 152mm, Height 203mm, Spine 25mm
Description
Artist, writer, and scholar Joanna Frueh scrutinizes ideals of beauty and sensuality, often motivated by her experiences with breast cancer. Photographer Frances Murray documents Frueh's journey of unapologetic beauty in a series of intimate, dazzlingly original photographs before and after her bilateral mastectomy and chemotherapy. Unapologetic Beauty arrives at a new, liberating view of beauty and of the sensual pleasure found in transformative self-acceptance.
Reviews
"Unapologetic Beauty is a downright necessary meditation on womens wisdom and beauty in aging. Joanna Frueh and Frances Murrayin writing and imagecall out the fact that our hyperbeauty culture relies on stereotypical taboos to make individuals unique or edgy, when we must rather recognize that real flesh, real love: they are the taboos. And the world needs more of both."Maria Elena Buszek, University of Colorado, Denver
"A wonderful, evocative depiction of a woman in all her glory."Susan Love, author of Dr. Susan Loves Breast Book
"Joanna Frueh develops her earlier strands: body image; representation of self; relationships between image, text, and body; body work; illness and healing. Starting with friendship and creativity, she draws these themes in her work together in a powerful invocation of moving toward self-love through self-acceptance. It will always be the right time to read this, no matter the body one inhabits."Hilary Robinson, editor of Feminism Art Theory: An Anthology 1968-2014
Author Bio
Joanna Frueh is a writer, performance artist, scholar, art critic and historian, and teacher whose work expands into photographic, video, and audio pieces. She received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Womens Caucus for Art in 2008. Her books include Erotic Faculties, Monster/Beauty: Building the Body of Love, Swooning Beauty: A Memoir of Pleasure, and Clairvoyance (For Those in the Desert): Performance Pieces, 19792004. She has performed and lectured in the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom and is professor emeritus of art history at the University of Nevada, Reno.
Frances Murray, a veteran fine arts photographer, has received several major awards, including a National Endowment for the Visual Arts grant and a National Endowment for the Arts U.S./Japan Exchange Fellowship. Her photographs are in the collections of several U.S. museums.
