Lara Cox

Maîtresse de Conférences

Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès (Toulouse 2)

FR

Biographie

Lara Cox is Maîtresse de Conférences in English and the Visual Arts at the Université of Toulouse Jean Jaurès. Her research concentrates on transatlantic exchanges in intellectual history and visual culture since 1945. Her second monograph (under contract with Bloomsbury) will study the shifting meanings of whiteness during the period 1945-1970 in the visual avant-gardes. It will analyse theatre-makers and exhibition-makers who migrated between the US and France, and the US and Britain.

Articles (1)

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Curating the Black Atlantic: An Overview of Exhibitions, 1989-2022

As the follow-on from a class project, this article presents a critical history of art exhibitions on the Black Atlantic between 1989 and 2022. Four common curatorial themes are identified: in-situ resonance; space as structuring motif; the medium of portraiture as a prominent artistic genre; and a negation of the visual.