Professor Fay (Fae) Brauer
Professor Fay (Fae) Brauer
Professor of Art and Visual Culture
Honorary Professor of Art History and Cultural Theory at The University of New South Wales National Institute of Experimental Arts.
Fay (Fae) Brauer is Professor of Art and Visual Culture in the Centre for Cultural Studies Research (CCSR), Arts and Digital Industries. While her interdisciplinary research and publications traverse art, culture, medicine and science, she teaches both undergraduate and postgraduate students, particularly in the fields of Modernism and Postmodernism, as well as Heritage and Visual Cultures.
Professor of Art and Visual Culture
Honorary Professor of Art History and Cultural Theory at The University of New South Wales National Institute of Experimental Arts.
Fay (Fae) Brauer is Professor of Art and Visual Culture in the Centre for Cultural Studies Research (CCSR), Arts and Digital Industries. While her interdisciplinary research and publications traverse art, culture, medicine and science, she teaches both undergraduate and postgraduate students, particularly in the fields of Modernism and Postmodernism, as well as Heritage and Visual Cultures.
aboutFay (Fae) Brauer is Professor of Art and Visual Culture in the Centre for Cultural Studies Research (CCSR), Arts and Digital Industries. She is also Honorary Professor of Art History and Cultural Theory at The University of New South Wales National Institute of Experimental Arts. She teaches both undergraduate and postgraduate students, particularly in the fields of Modernism and Postmodernism, as well as Heritage and Visual Cultures. Her research focuses upon interdisciplinary interconnections in relation to the body, evolution, extinction, eugenics, genetics and the cultural politics redolent in art and cultural institutions. This is demonstrated by her books: Picturing Evolution and Extinction: Regeneration and Degeneration in Modern Visual Culture; The Art of Evolution: Darwin, Darwinisms and Visual Culture; Art, Sex and Eugenics: Corpus Delecti (awarded Best Book of the year in 2009) and Rivals and Conspirators: The Paris Salons and the Modern Art Centre (nominated for four book awards). She is the author of over 30 book chapters and some 50 articles. Her forthcoming books include Regenerating the Body: Modernist Biocultures, Neo-Lamarckian Eugenics and the Fitness Imperative; Symbiotic Species: The Art and Science of Transformism; Enchanting Science; Enchanting Science: The Vital Force of Art and Transformism, and Canvasing Perversion: Picasso, Science and Medicine.
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researchesModern Visual Cultures, Modernisms, Postmodernisms, Science and Medicine: Eugenics, New Genetics, Evolution, Extinction, Ecology and the Anthropocene
The prime focus of Professor Brauer’s research is the interrelationships between modern art, modern visual cultures, Modernism, science and medicine, particularly eugenics, new genetics, evolution, extinction, ecology and the Anthropocene. This is demonstrated by her books Picturing Evolution and Extinction: Regeneration and Degeneration in Modern Visual Cultures; The Art of Evolution: Darwin, Darwinisms and Visual Culture; Art, Sex and Eugenics, Corpus Delecti, and her forthcoming books, Regenerating the Body: Modernist Biocultures, Neo-Lamarckian Eugenics and the Fitness Imperative; Enchanting Science: The Vital Force of Art and Transformism and Symbiotic Species: The Art and Science of Transformism in Solidarist France (refer Publishing). It is also demonstrated by the research network she has forged with Professor Louise Lyle, University of London in Paris (ULIP) on Colonial Eugenics, as well as the conferences she has convened on evolution and extinction and the event she is planning with Eve Katsouraki at the University of East London Stratford campus (USS), Performing Evolution: Art, Culture, Medicine and Science. Art Institutions, Museums and Cultural Politics Long have art institutions and cultural politics been a focus of Professor Brauer’s research as demonstrated by her journal articles, conference papers, book chapter, “Commercial Spies and Cultural Invaders: The French Press, Pénétration Pacifique and Xenophobic Nationalism in the Shadow of War”, Printed Matters: Printing, Publishing and Urban Culture in Europe in the Modern Period, and her book. Rivals and Conspirators: The Paris Salons and the Modern Art Centre. Exploring the relationship of the Salon des Artistes Français, Salon National des Beaux-Arts, Salon des Artistes Indépendants and Salon d’Automne to the French art ministry, state-funded fine art councils and committees, as well as the Paris-based dealer galleries between 1881 and 1920, this book reveals surprising power relations, particularly the ‘cultural capital’ accrued by Léon Bonnat and William Bouguereau. The cultural politics of French institutions is also the subject of her long-planned book, Politicizing Cubism: Aliens, Criminals, Degenerates and Traitors. The Body, Androgyny, Hysteria, Hypnosis, Magnetism, Occultism, etc. Professor Brauer’s research also intersects with the fields in relation to art and visual culture, as demonstrated by her book chapters, journal articles, conferences, conference sessions and conference papers on these subjects . |
selected publicationsBOOKS
1. Fae Brauer, Rivals and Conspirators: The Paris Salons and the Modern Art Centre (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013; 450 pages; 400 illustrations; ISBN (10): 1-4438-5376-3; ISBN (13): 1-4438-5376-7) 2. Fae Brauer and Serena Keshavjee, Picturing Evolution and Extinction: Regeneration and Degeneration in Modern Visual Culture (Lady Stephenson Library, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015) 350 pages; 150 illustrations; ISBN (10): 1-4438-7253-9; ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-7253-9. 3. Fae Brauer and Barbara Larson, The Art of Evolution: Darwin, Darwinisms and Visual Culture (Hanover and London: The University Press of New England, 2009; ISBN 978-1-58465-775-0); paperback publication, 2016. 4. Fae Brauer and Anthea Callen, Art, Sex and Eugenics: Corpus Delecti (Hampshire, UK; Vermont, USA: Ashgate Publishing, 2008; ISBN 978-0-7546-5827-6). BOOK CHAPTERS 1. Fae Brauer, “Astrobiology and the Androgyne: Hélène Dufau's Occult Transformism”, L'Androgyne au passage du siècle visual culture, ed. Pascal Rousseau (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2017). 2. Fae Brauer, “Dealing with Cubism: Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler's Perilous Internationalism”, The Art of the Deal: Dealers and the Global Art Market from 1860 to 1940, eds. Lynn Catterton and Charlotte Vignon (Leiden, Boston and Tokyo: Brill International Publishing, 2017). 3. Fae Brauer, “The Pasted Paper Devolution: Sexual Degeneration and Neoregulation in the Cubist Papier-Collés”, Of Modernism: Essays in Honour of Christopher Green, eds. Grace Brockington and Charles M. Miller (Paul Holberton Publishing, 2016). 4. Fae Brauer, “Capturing Unconsciousness: Psychology, Hypnosis and the Culture of Hysteria”, A Companion to Nineteenth Century Art, ed. Michelle-Facos (London: Wiley Blackwell, 2016). 5. Fae Brauer, “Deadly Doubles: Pathologized and Normalized Body Photography in Karl Pearson’s Modern Culture of Science and Eugenics”, Being Modern: Science and Culture in the Early Twentieth Century, eds. Robert Budd, Paul Greenhalgh, Frank James and Morag Shiach (London: University College London Press, 2016). 6. Fae Brauer, “Becoming Animal: Charles Darwin and Modernist Monkey Business”, Evolutionary Theory and Visual Culture: The Darwin Effect, eds. Michael Dorsch and Jean van Exel Evans (London and New York: Routledge, 2016). 7. Fae Brauer, “Queens of Strength”: Bodybuilding The New Woman”, Building the Body Beautiful: Modern Art, Vitalist Cultures and the Fitness Imperative, ed. Fae Brauer (The MIT Press, 2017). 8. Fae Brauer, “Contesting “Le Corps Militaire”: Antimilitarism, Pacifism and ‘Le douanier’ Rousseau’s ‘La Guerre’”, Rewriting Post-Impressionism: Essays in Honour of Vojtĕch Jirat-Wasiutyński, ed. Anthea Callen (Hampshire, UK; Vermont, USA: Ashgate Publishing, 2017). |
