Unapologetic Beauty by Joanna Frueh (English) Hardcover Book

Description: Unapologetic Beauty by Joanna Frueh, Frances Murray Artist,writer, and scholar Joanna Frueh scrutinizes ideals of beauty and sensuality,often motivated by her experiences with breast cancer. Photographer FrancesMurray documents Fruehs journey of unapologetic beauty in a series ofintimate, dazzlingly original photographs before and after her bilateralmastectomy and chemotherapy. Unapologetic Beauty arrives at a new, liberatingview of beauty and of the sensual pleasure found in transformativeself-acceptance. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography 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, 1979–2004. 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. Table of Contents ContentsAn Art of FriendshipCultures Breasts ICultures Breasts IIMy BreastsApologyHyperbeautyBeauty HeroesBeauty RedefinedThe Pleasure of Pleasing OurselvesLanguageThe 4 Cs of Creating BeautyAcknowledgmentsNotesGlossary Review "Unapologetic Beauty is a downright necessary meditation on womens wisdom and beauty in aging. Joanna Frueh and Frances Murray—in writing and image—call 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 Long Description A startlingly powerful collaboration reimagines female beauty What is beauty without pain? Compromise is what our culture offers women: cinching, pinching, cutting, shaving, scraping, starving, and, of course, lifting and separating, all in service of one sharply circumscribed model purported to be pleasing--but not to most, if any, women. This extraordinary book reimagines beauty at its most provocative and fetishized locus: the female breast. Artist, writer, and scholar Joanna Frueh scrutinizes ideals of beauty and sensuality, often motivated by her experiences with breast cancer. Frances Murray, her friend and collaborator for more than thirty years, documents Fruehs journey of unapologetic beauty in a series of intimate, dazzlingly original photographs before and after her bilateral mastectomy and chemotherapy. Reflecting with insight, directness, and humor--and with contributions from a breast surgeon, an oncologist, and artists and scholars who have had breast cancer--Frueh arrives at a new, liberating view of beauty and of the sensual pleasure found in transformative self-acceptance. Central to this reckoning is her documentation and critique of the notion of hyperbeauty (the flash of flesh appeal, hyperthin, hyperfeminine, hyperbosomy, hypersexy, and hyperyoung sold at the global 24/7 beauty bazaar) and her playful, inventive presentation of tools for remaking minds and hearts disfigured by self-denying ideals. In its bracing critique, passionate argument, and compelling narrative--all illustrative of its own unapologetic beauty--this collaboration is a performance of startling power, stirring to consider and a pleasure to behold. Review Quote " Unapologetic Beauty is a downright necessary meditation on womens wisdom and beauty in aging. Joanna Frueh and Frances Murray--in writing and image--call 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 Details ISBN1517906555 Author Frances Murray Pages 136 Year 2019 ISBN-10 1517906555 ISBN-13 9781517906559 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2019-02-05 Language English UK Release Date 2019-02-05 Imprint University of Minnesota Press Place of Publication Minnesota Country of Publication United States NZ Release Date 2019-02-05 US Release Date 2019-02-05 Illustrations 40 Publisher University of Minnesota Press Alternative 9781517906566 DEWEY 778.921 Audience General AU Release Date 2019-05-13 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161854216;

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