Inaugural lecture by Dr Fay Brauer, newly appointed Visiting Research Professor for Visual Theories at the UEL School of Arts and Digital Industries.
Dr Brauer is Senior Lecturer in the School of Art History and Theory at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Her work explores the way in which we view and conceptualise the human body, as well as how beauty is constantly redefined by philosophy.
This UEL lecture will focus on the ideas and work of Pierre de Coubertin, who founded the modern Olympics in 1896, and how the Olympic revival related to the parallel development of evolutionism and eugenics.
Dr Brauer's latest book, Regenerating the Body: Modernism, Evolutionism and Eugenics, deploys history of art, popular culture, medicine, science and sport to reveal how a re-conceptualisation of the human body occurred in Western art and culture from the end of the nineteenth century.
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