A Practice of Pleasure

Joanna Frueh's Performances and Writings, 2005–2011
This intimate collection explores the life and work of Joanna Frueh. Featuring previously unpublished texts from her career, A Practice of Pleasure offers a candid, scholarly, and personal meditation on female, sexual, and everyday pleasures, embodying Frueh’s unique approach to art and life.
A Practice of Pleasure is an intimate and panoramic entrée into the life and work of Joanna Frueh (1948-2020), an art historian and performance practitioner for whom life and art were inseparable. Written during a key transitional moment in her life and work (2005-2012), the volume makes available primarily unpublished performance texts and writings that give an intimate insight both into Frueh’s everyday life and the thinking of an artist and scholar well known for offering her personal experiences as a means of embodying and speaking about pleasure. A self-described ‘pleasure activist’, Frueh’s book offers a highly original perspective on pleasure—frank, scholarly, philosophical, romantic, and conversational. Taken together, the texts comprising A Practice of Pleasure are an ode to pleasure in the widest sense: female pleasure, sexual pleasure, and the pleasures of prosaic and domestic beauties, such as enjoying the reality of her own body and the luxurious simplicities of the senses.

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