Author

Publication

1996 - University of California Press, Berkeley, California

Language

English

Word Count

53,500 words, Guess

Page Count

214 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number95023356
  • Goodreads492023
  • LibraryThing2800967

Classifications

  • DDC700
  • LCCNX650.E7 F78 1996

Description

In this mesmerizing, utterly original work, noted performance artist Joanna Frueh affirms the erotic both as a form of communion and transcendence and as a critical practice. Frueh rejects postmodern prose, using lush, graphic and sexual language to explore aging, beauty, sex, love, pleasure, contemporary art, and the body as a site and vehicle of knowledge and wisdom. Speaking in the multiple voices of lover, prophet, daughter, mythmaker, art critic, activist, and bleeding heart, Frueh seeks to loose the power of our unutilized erotic faculties with all of their widely expansive potential. Recuperating the sentimental, proudly asserting a romantic viewpoint, disrupting academic and feminist conventions, Erotic Faculties is a wild ride and a consummate pleasure.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Erotic facultiesUniversity of California Press1996-01-01

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