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Art History Faculty Information

Lorraine Morales Cox
Assistant Professor of Visual Arts
A.M. & Ph. D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
B.F.A., Virginia Commonwealth University

Office: North Colonnade 111
Phone: (518) 388-8038
Email: coxl@union.edu

Area of Concentration:
      My teaching interests include intermediate and advanced courses in Contemporary Art & Theory (AAH045) and Modern European Art (AAH040) and Early American Modernism (AAH042). I am offering a new course on Latin American & Caribbean Art of the Modern Era (AAH025) and plan to develop a survey course covering pre-Colombian art through the Spanish Colonial period as well as African & Oceanic Art. I also teach several general education survey courses including Art of the United States (AAH029) which covers the colonial period through the 20th century as well as the second and third part of the Introduction to Art History survey courses (AAH12,13).

Research Interests:
      My research continues to focus on theoretical ideas that explore conceptions of the self and identity in relation to recent contemporary art. In addition to continuing my research and writing on the German artist, Jörg Immendorff, the subject of my dissertation, I am embarking on a new book project on the intersection between visual culture and critical race studies. My research often takes an interdisciplinary approach that combines social and critical theories in relation to art works that confront issues dealing with race, gender, identity politics, and other themes related to cultural and introspective self-scrutiny. I tend to gravitate towards the study of contemporary art that incorporates the “body” in relation to these issues, both directly in the form of figurative art, as well as indirectly through viscerally suggestive materials and through a variety of media including installation art and the more traditional mediums of painting and sculpture.




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