Laurence Danguy
laurence.danguy@epfl.ch https://www.unil.ch/hart/home/menuinst/collaborateurs-1/collaborateurs/histoire-de-lart-contemporai/laurence-danguy.html
Nationality: CH / F
Expertise
History of European Art, 19th–21st Centuries
Cultural History, 19th–21st Centuries
Cultural History, 19th–21st Centuries
Laurence Danguy studied art history, history and archaeology at the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne and at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). She also studied management sciences at the University of Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne (MBA - IAE Paris). In 2006, she completed her PhD in Art History and Science as part of a joint supervision programme between EHESS and the University of Konstanz (Germany). Her thesis was published in 2009 under the title L'ange de la jeunesse & La revue Jugend et le Jugendstil à Munich (MSH, Philia collection). Between 2005 and 2009, she taught at the University of Konstanz. She has been working at UNIL since 2008 as a researcher (two FNS/UNIL projects on the Swiss satirical periodical Nebelspalter) and as a lecturer in the Art History Department and the Centre for Historical Cultural Studies (SHC). At EHESS, she was a lecturer from 2010 to 2012 (L'ange moderne), then again between 2016 and 2018 (Création et subversion de l'image populaire dans le champ artistique européen). She is an associate researcher with the ISOR team at the Centre d'histoire du XIXe siècle de Paris I-Paris IV, Swiss correspondent for the Centre d'étude de l'écriture et de l'image (CEEI) and a member of the interdisciplinary research team on satirical imagery (EIRIS). She recently co-edited L'œil numérique and Caricature et chapeaux. La symbolique des couvre-chefs dans la caricature (The Symbolism of Headwear in Caricature), and published two important contributions on the early work of Louise Bourgeois and the Tarot of Marseille. She is preparing a collective work on the notion of incorrectness (Figures de controverses et thèmes controversés. Comment traiter de l'incorrect ?, BSN Press). Her current research focuses on illustrated periodicals in Europe, the Tarot of Marseille, art theory and digital humanities.
List of publications:
https://applicationspub.unil.ch/interpub/noauth/php/Un/UnPers.php?PerNum=1066210&LanCode=37&menu=pub
ORCID record: orcid.org/0000-0002-7114-8198
Teaching & PhD
Courses
Manufacturing artistic identities from the 19th to the 21st centuries
HUM-394
The course offers an introduction to the history of contemporary art from the 19th to the 21st century, allowing the works to be approached from an aesthetic and social point of view.