Lara Cox
Biographic Data
| ID | 3745935 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lara Cox |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lara |
| FAMILY NAME | Cox |
| SIGNATURE | COX L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Marc Robinson. American Performance in 1976
The Absurd Worlds of Eva Hesse
Building on Hal Foster’s article (2022)—about the absurd qualities of the sculptures of Eva Hesse (1936-1970)—this is the first article-length study which explores the thematic and formal affinities between the artist’s abstract sculptures and the work of playwrights, plastic artists, and performance artists associated with an aesthetic of absurdism. In part one, I place Hesse’s art in line with Conceptual Artists of the 1960s who were interested…
An Interview with Debra Bricker Balken and Lynn Gumpert, curators of Americans in Paris
The exhibition Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946-1962, running between March and July 2024, examines the art of US expats in Paris following World War II. The following is the second of a two-part interview with the show’s curators, Debra Bricker Balken and Lynn Gumpert. In this second part, the curators discuss the title of their show, which constitutes a reference to Vincente Minnelli’s famous film An American in Paris…
An Interview with Debra Bricker Balken and Lynn Gumpert, curators of Americans in Paris
Projected to open in February 2024 at the Grey Art Gallery of NYU, Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946-1962 examines the work of approximately seventy artists who lived in Paris for a period during the two decades following World War II. The following is the first of a two-part interview with the show’s curators, Debra Bricker Balken and Lynn Gumpert. In this first part, the organizers discuss the relationship of Americans…
MAP-ping Queerness? Street Art in Philadelphia
This article reflects on how street art helps to “queer” the city of Philadelphia. America’s sixth largest city has come to be known as the “City of Murals” following the initiative started by Mural Arts Philadelphia’s (MAP) Executive Director Jane Golden in 1987. It has also in recent years been re-branded as a queer city. Firstly, I consider how street art represents queer communities, drawing on human geographer Felix Driver’s paradigm of imag…
Self-Critical Freedoms
This article considers how those subordinated for their gender and sexual orientation, but privileged for their race and class, may be better allies to people, especially women, of colour. Judith Butler's Excitable Speech (1997) is a helpful aid. Butler offers us a strategy to think through - albeit by way of supplementary voices such as legal theorist Kimberlé Crenshaw, French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu and philosopher George Yancy - how white …
Jules Tavernier and the Elem Pomo
Compte-rendu d’exposition
The Year of Shirley Jaffe
Essai et compte-rendu d’une année d’expositions sur Shirley Jaffe en France. Analyse de expositions suivantes : United States of Abstraction : artistes américains en France, 1946-1964 au Musée d’art de Nantes entre le 19 mai 2022 au 18 juillet 2021 et au Musée Fabre de Montpellier entre le 6 août et le 31 octobre 2021 ; Shirley Jaffe : une Américaine à Paris au Centre Georges Pompidou entre le 20 avril et le 29 août ; Motifs, raisons d’agir entre…
Pause and Re-set
Compte-rendu de “The Work of Adrienne Kennedy: Inspiration and Influence”. Festival de théâtre en ligne. 14 novembre 2020 – 28 février 2021
The Idea of America
Compte-rendu de l’art états-unien dans « Ouverture », l’exposition inaugurale de la Collection Pinault à la Bourse de Commerce, Paris
Pause and Re-set
Compte-rendu de “The Work of Adrienne Kennedy: Inspiration and Influence”. Festival de théâtre en ligne. 14 novembre 2020 – 28 février 2021
Admirable Alterity on the Frontier
The article explores a corpus of Hollywood Westerns spanning a fifty-year period between 1931 and 1980 in which Frenchwomen are prominent agents on the Western frontier. It suggests that while the American film industry has had a long-standing esteem for French culture, it was during the 1950s that Hollywood began to promote systematically positive representations of Frenchwomen in the Western. It proposes that a genre of “Frenchness Westerns” em…
In-Yer-Face Mouths and Immobilisation
Cet article présente l’œuvre de Sarah Kane, dramaturge britannique, comme une parodie du théâtre de Samuel Beckett. Kane faisait partie du mouvement théâtral "In-Yer-Face" qui se développa dans les années 1990 en Grande-Bretagne. Son style frontal rend hommage à celui qui fut son maître mais critique aussi la représentation des femmes chez l’écrivain de théâtre irlandais. Blasted (1995) de Kane peut en effet se lire comme une parodie de En Attend…
Decolonial Queer Feminism in Donna Haraway's 'A Cyborg Manifesto' (1985)
This article explores the queer qualities of feminist scientist Donna Haraway's 'A Cyborg Manifesto' (1985). In the first part, the article investigates the similarities between 'A Cyborg Manifesto' and the ideas circulating in queer theory, including the hybridity of identity, and the disruption of totalizing social categories such as 'Gay man' and 'Woman'. In the second part, it is argued that 'A Cyborg Manifesto' evinced a decolonial feminist …
Reaching for Archive Fever
This article reflects on the history of queer theory's entry in France by turning to two critics, Marie-Hélène Bourcier and François Cusset, who claim to have introduced the term 'queer' into French culture. It analogizes these critics' claims as a battle of the 'archons' as conceptualized by Derrida in Archive Fever. Archons police official memory and search for the 'authentic' origins of the event, practice or discipline that is archived. The D…
Standing Up against the Rape Joke
This article explores the presence of the rape joke in contemporary American stand-up comedy. It propounds that irony is a key ingredient in comics’ legitimation of their jokes in a world where feminism has made rape a serious issue. While comics might insist that their ironic endeavors have a role to play in sociopolitical critique, irony provides the author with a critical tool to explore the fuller implications of the rape joke. Dividing analy…
Misogyny, Maids, and Murderesses
This essay examines Jean Genet's Les Bonnes ( The Maids ) from a fresh angle, applying recent feminist cultural studies criticism on the topic of murder (notably by lisa Downing) to Genet's depiction of the figure of the murderess in this play. It identifies how certain clichés related to the figure in Western culture are potentially destabilized in Les Bonnes , and pinpoints the interrogation of the female killer as a stereotyped "masculine woma…
Flaubert, Femininity, and Free-Fall Stardom
This article reflects on the feminist potential of a contemporary form of French female cinema stardom that John Orr (2004) names 'free-fall'. According to Orr, free-fall is a genre of female stardom that has come to prominence in French cinema at the end of the twentieth century and the start of the twenty-first. The free-fall star embarks on a journey of 'ontological descent', self-destruction and Kristevan abjection, but we cannot know her rea…
The curious case of La Cantatrice chauve (1950)
This article deploys the production history of Ionesco’s most famous play, La Cantatrice chauve, to interrogate a theory of the failure of the avant-garde propounded by cultural theorists. This play has been produced without interruption by the dedicated cast of the small Left Bank Huchette theatre in Paris since 1957. I argue that, while the Huchette’s ‘Le Spectacle Ionesco’ has become a tourist commodity for many theatregoers, the specific circ…
Booknotes
Decolonial Queer Feminism in Donna Haraway's 'A Cyborg Manifesto' (1985)
This article explores the queer qualities of feminist scientist Donna Haraway's 'A Cyborg Manifesto' (1985). In the first part, the article investigates the similarities between 'A Cyborg Manifesto' and the ideas circulating in queer theory, including the hybridity of identity, and the disruption of totalizing social categories such as 'Gay man' and 'Woman'. In the second part, it is argued that 'A Cyborg Manifesto' evinced a decolonial feminist …
Booknotes
Flaubert, Femininity, and Free-Fall Stardom
This article reflects on the feminist potential of a contemporary form of French female cinema stardom that John Orr (2004) names 'free-fall'. According to Orr, free-fall is a genre of female stardom that has come to prominence in French cinema at the end of the twentieth century and the start of the twenty-first. The free-fall star embarks on a journey of 'ontological descent', self-destruction and Kristevan abjection, but we cannot know her rea…
The curious case of La Cantatrice chauve (1950)
This article deploys the production history of Ionesco’s most famous play, La Cantatrice chauve, to interrogate a theory of the failure of the avant-garde propounded by cultural theorists. This play has been produced without interruption by the dedicated cast of the small Left Bank Huchette theatre in Paris since 1957. I argue that, while the Huchette’s ‘Le Spectacle Ionesco’ has become a tourist commodity for many theatregoers, the specific circ…
Misogyny, Maids, and Murderesses
This essay examines Jean Genet's Les Bonnes ( The Maids ) from a fresh angle, applying recent feminist cultural studies criticism on the topic of murder (notably by lisa Downing) to Genet's depiction of the figure of the murderess in this play. It identifies how certain clichés related to the figure in Western culture are potentially destabilized in Les Bonnes , and pinpoints the interrogation of the female killer as a stereotyped "masculine woma…
Standing Up against the Rape Joke
This article explores the presence of the rape joke in contemporary American stand-up comedy. It propounds that irony is a key ingredient in comics’ legitimation of their jokes in a world where feminism has made rape a serious issue. While comics might insist that their ironic endeavors have a role to play in sociopolitical critique, irony provides the author with a critical tool to explore the fuller implications of the rape joke. Dividing analy…
Reaching for Archive Fever
This article reflects on the history of queer theory's entry in France by turning to two critics, Marie-Hélène Bourcier and François Cusset, who claim to have introduced the term 'queer' into French culture. It analogizes these critics' claims as a battle of the 'archons' as conceptualized by Derrida in Archive Fever. Archons police official memory and search for the 'authentic' origins of the event, practice or discipline that is archived. The D…
Decolonial Queer Feminism in Donna Haraway's 'A Cyborg Manifesto' (1985)
This article explores the queer qualities of feminist scientist Donna Haraway's 'A Cyborg Manifesto' (1985). In the first part, the article investigates the similarities between 'A Cyborg Manifesto' and the ideas circulating in queer theory, including the hybridity of identity, and the disruption of totalizing social categories such as 'Gay man' and 'Woman'. In the second part, it is argued that 'A Cyborg Manifesto' evinced a decolonial feminist …
Admirable Alterity on the Frontier
The article explores a corpus of Hollywood Westerns spanning a fifty-year period between 1931 and 1980 in which Frenchwomen are prominent agents on the Western frontier. It suggests that while the American film industry has had a long-standing esteem for French culture, it was during the 1950s that Hollywood began to promote systematically positive representations of Frenchwomen in the Western. It proposes that a genre of “Frenchness Westerns” em…
In-Yer-Face Mouths and Immobilisation
Cet article présente l’œuvre de Sarah Kane, dramaturge britannique, comme une parodie du théâtre de Samuel Beckett. Kane faisait partie du mouvement théâtral "In-Yer-Face" qui se développa dans les années 1990 en Grande-Bretagne. Son style frontal rend hommage à celui qui fut son maître mais critique aussi la représentation des femmes chez l’écrivain de théâtre irlandais. Blasted (1995) de Kane peut en effet se lire comme une parodie de En Attend…
Pause and Re-set
Compte-rendu de “The Work of Adrienne Kennedy: Inspiration and Influence”. Festival de théâtre en ligne. 14 novembre 2020 – 28 février 2021
The Idea of America
Compte-rendu de l’art états-unien dans « Ouverture », l’exposition inaugurale de la Collection Pinault à la Bourse de Commerce, Paris
Pause and Re-set
Compte-rendu de “The Work of Adrienne Kennedy: Inspiration and Influence”. Festival de théâtre en ligne. 14 novembre 2020 – 28 février 2021
Jules Tavernier and the Elem Pomo
Compte-rendu d’exposition
The Year of Shirley Jaffe
Essai et compte-rendu d’une année d’expositions sur Shirley Jaffe en France. Analyse de expositions suivantes : United States of Abstraction : artistes américains en France, 1946-1964 au Musée d’art de Nantes entre le 19 mai 2022 au 18 juillet 2021 et au Musée Fabre de Montpellier entre le 6 août et le 31 octobre 2021 ; Shirley Jaffe : une Américaine à Paris au Centre Georges Pompidou entre le 20 avril et le 29 août ; Motifs, raisons d’agir entre…
An Interview with Debra Bricker Balken and Lynn Gumpert, curators of Americans in Paris
Projected to open in February 2024 at the Grey Art Gallery of NYU, Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946-1962 examines the work of approximately seventy artists who lived in Paris for a period during the two decades following World War II. The following is the first of a two-part interview with the show’s curators, Debra Bricker Balken and Lynn Gumpert. In this first part, the organizers discuss the relationship of Americans…
MAP-ping Queerness? Street Art in Philadelphia
This article reflects on how street art helps to “queer” the city of Philadelphia. America’s sixth largest city has come to be known as the “City of Murals” following the initiative started by Mural Arts Philadelphia’s (MAP) Executive Director Jane Golden in 1987. It has also in recent years been re-branded as a queer city. Firstly, I consider how street art represents queer communities, drawing on human geographer Felix Driver’s paradigm of imag…
Self-Critical Freedoms
This article considers how those subordinated for their gender and sexual orientation, but privileged for their race and class, may be better allies to people, especially women, of colour. Judith Butler's Excitable Speech (1997) is a helpful aid. Butler offers us a strategy to think through - albeit by way of supplementary voices such as legal theorist Kimberlé Crenshaw, French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu and philosopher George Yancy - how white …
An Interview with Debra Bricker Balken and Lynn Gumpert, curators of Americans in Paris
The exhibition Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946-1962, running between March and July 2024, examines the art of US expats in Paris following World War II. The following is the second of a two-part interview with the show’s curators, Debra Bricker Balken and Lynn Gumpert. In this second part, the curators discuss the title of their show, which constitutes a reference to Vincente Minnelli’s famous film An American in Paris…
Marc Robinson. American Performance in 1976
The Absurd Worlds of Eva Hesse
Building on Hal Foster’s article (2022)—about the absurd qualities of the sculptures of Eva Hesse (1936-1970)—this is the first article-length study which explores the thematic and formal affinities between the artist’s abstract sculptures and the work of playwrights, plastic artists, and performance artists associated with an aesthetic of absurdism. In part one, I place Hesse’s art in line with Conceptual Artists of the 1960s who were interested…
Art (15 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Art history (11 works) · French Historical and Cultural Studies (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · History (7 works) · Visual arts (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (4 works)