Renowned artist, critic, and art historian, Joanna Frueh, will host a lecture at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 16 in UNLV's Classroom Building Complex (CBC), Room A108 on the UNLV campus as part of the UNLV Art Department's 2003 Visiting Artist Program, coordinated by art professor Robert Wysocki. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Frueh is an international performer whose works encompass subjects that are both scholarly and sexual. Her recently published work, "The Aesthetics of Orgasm" -- a memoir binding poetry with the language of critical discourse. In Frueh's words, the memoir "articulates a philosophy of love."

Speaking of Frueh's most recent major publication, "Monster/Beauty: Building the Body of Love," author Alphonso Lingis says, "This book is monstrous...full of gorgeous hypermuscular women, stepmothers and vampires; full of ravishing muscular sex, classroom eroticism and splendid aging."

Other Frueh titles include "Erotic Faculties" and "Hannah Wilke: A Retrospective." Frueh is the coeditor of "Picturing the Modern Amazon," "Feminist Art Criticism: Art, Identity, Action" and "Feminist Art Criticism: An Anthology." Her scholarly works and reviews have appeared regularly in a number of publications including Art Journal, Art in America, New Art Examiner and High Performance.

Frueh, an art history professor at the University of Nevada, is the recipient of a Nevada Arts Council Artist Fellowship in Literary Arts, as well as the Susan Koppelman Award for her anthology, Picturing the Modern Amazon.

She received her M.A. and Ph.D from The University of Chicago, and B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College.