ePub Bon Iver: Good Winter (Musicians Institute) by Mark Beaumont in Arts-Photography

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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 Fruehrsquo;s evolution as an artist and intellectual over the course of her career. Many of these texts have never before been published; others have not been readily available until now. Among the sixteen color photographs in this richly illustrated book are pictures of Frueh performing and images from Joanna in the Desert; a 2006 collaboration between Frueh and the artist and scholar Jill Orsquo;Bryan.Fruehrsquo;s performances are unabashedly autobiographical; as likely to reflect her scholarship as a feminist art historian as her love affairs or childhood memories. For Frueh; eros and self-love are part of a revolutionary feminist strategy; her work exemplifies the physicality and embrace of pleasure that she finds wanting in contemporary feminist theory. Scholarly and rigorous yet playful in tone; her performances are joyful; filled with eroticism; flowers; sexy costumes; and beautiful colors; textures; and scents. Recurring themes include Fruehrsquo;s passionate attachment to the desert landscape and the idea of transformation: a continual reaching for clarity of thought and feeling.In an afterword as lyrical and breathless as her performance pieces; Frueh explores her identification with the desert and its influence on her art. Clairvoyance (For Those In The Desert) includes a detailed chronology of Fruehrsquo;s performances.