title: Picturing The Modern Amazon (New Museum Books)
author: Joanna Frueh
description: <div><b>Joanna Frueh</b> is a noted art critic, art historian, and performance artist. Frueh's articles, reviews, and performance texts have appeared in numerous magazines and journals. She has authored, co-edited, or contributed to many critical volumes on contemporary women's art, including her own <i>Monster/Beauty: Building the Body of Love</i> (2000) and <i>Erotic Faculties</i> (1996). <br><br><b>Laurie Fierstein</b> is a national champion bodybuilder with a history of pursuing creative ways of broadening the discussion of physically powerful women. She was creator and co-producer of <i>Celebration of the Most Awesome Female Muscle in the World </i>(1993), and produced and co-wrote <i>Evolution F: A Surreal Spectacle of Female Muscle</i>, thus pioneering a new genre of female muscle in exhibition/performance. Fierstein has written previously on the subjects of physically strong women, bodybuilding, and performance. <br><br><b>Judith Stein</b> is a Philadelphia-based curator and critic. A recipient of the Pew Fellowship for the Arts for her critical writings, Stein is a frequent contributor to <i>Art in America</i>, and her feminist essays are included in <i>The Power of Feminist Art: The American Movement of the 1970s; History and Impact</i> (1994), and <i>Making Their Mark: American Women Artists, 1970-85</i> (1989).<br></div>
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  Day One
  
  
  
  
  
  When the first call comes in, Lyla McCord i