Associate Professsor Fay (Fae) Brauer's research and publications explore the cultural politics and national rivalry inherent in showcasing and acquiring art, as well as interactions in art, science and medicine through visual cultures of the human and animal body. This is exemplified by her publications on museums, Biennales and the French salons, as well as on eugenics, genetics and evolution, particularly colonial eugenics, Darwinism and Neo-Lamarckian Transformism; male and female hysteria, hypnosis and animal magnetism; dissection and the anatomy lesson; the procreative imperative and normalisation; sexual diseases and abjection. She is also Professor of Art and Visual Culture in the School of Arts and Digital Industries at the University of East London.

Books Published:

1. Rivals and Conspirators:  The Paris Salons and the Modern Art Centre (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013)

2. Picturing Evolution and Extinction:  Degeneration and Regeneration in Modern Visual Culture, eds. Fae Brauer and Serena Keshavjee (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014)

3. Radical Space: Exploring Politics and Practice, eds. Debra Shaw and Fae Brauer (London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2014)

4. The Art of Evolution:  Darwin, Darwinisms and Visual Culture, eds. Fae Brauer and Barbara Larson (Hanover and London:  The University Press of New England), 2009

5. Art, Sex and Eugenics: Corpus Delecti, eds. Fae Brauer and Anthea Callen (Hampshire, UK; Vermont, USA:  Ashgate Publishing, 2008 (awarded 'Best Book of the Year' prize by the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand).

Books Forthcoming:

6. Symbiotic Species:  Art and Transformism in Solidarist France (The Penn State University Press) (forthcoming)

7. Regenerating the Body:  Art and Neo-Lamarckian Biocultures in Republican France (University of Chicago Press) (forthcoming)

8. Bloody Bodies:  The Art of Dissection and Execution, ed. Fae Brauer (The University of Illinois Press) (forthcoming)

9. Feminizing Muscle:  Body Trouble in Visual Cultures (University of California Press)

10. Canvasing Perversions:  Picasso, Science and Medicine (Ashgate Publishing) (Ashgate Publishing) (forthcoming)

11. Unmasking Masculinity:  Imaging Hysterical Men in Republican France (Manchester University Press) (forthcoming)

12. Vision and Visionaries:  Psychology, Occult Science and Symbolist Art, eds. Michelle Facos and Fae Brauer (Routledge)

13. Building the Body Beautiful:  Vitalist Biocultures and the Fitness Imperative, ed. Fae Brauer (The MIT Press)

 Book Chapters Forthcoming:

1. Fae Brauer, "Turquet's 'Turkey': Ending the Salon", Painting for the Salon/Peindrepour le Salon, 1791-1881, eds. James Kearns and Alister Mill (Peter Lang, 2014)

2. Fae Brauer, "Becoming Primate: Devolution as Evolution in Picasso, Kupka and Rousseau", Picturing Evolution and Extinction: Degeneration and Regeneration in Modern Visual Culture, eds. Fae Brauer and Serena Keshavjee (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014)

3. Fae Brauer, “Embracing Intimacy”:  Inventing the Dream Bedroom", in The Modern French Interior and Mass Media, eds. Anca I. Lasc, Georgina Downey and Mark Taylor (The MIT Press, 2015)

4. Fae Brauer, “Modernist Monkey Business:  Picasso, Rousseau and Darwin's Symbiotic Evolution", in The Darwin Effect:  Evolutionary Theory, Art, and Aesthetic Throught, eds. Jean M. Evans and Michael Dorsch (Routledge, 2015)

5. Fae Brauer, "Capturing Unconsciousness: Psychology, Hypnosis and the Cultures of Hysteria", A Companion to Nineteenth Century Art, ed. Michelle-Facos (London: Wiley Blackwell, 2015)

6. Fae Brauer, “Queens of Strength”:  Bodybuilding The New Woman", in Building the Body Beautiful:  Vitalist Biocultures and the Fitness Imperative, ed. Fae Brauer (The MIT Press, 2014)

7. Fae Brauer, "Contesting “Le Corps Militaire”:  Antimilitarism, Pacifism and ‘Le douanier’ Rousseau’s ‘La Guerre’", in Rewriting Post-Impressionism: Essays in Honour of Vojtĕch Jirat-Wasiutyński, ed. Anthea Callen (Hampshire, UK; Vermont, USA:  Ashgate Publishing, 2013)

8. Fae Brauer, "The Pasted Paper Devolution:  Sexual Degeneration and Neoregulation in the Cubist Papier-Collés", in Writing Modern Art History:  Essays in Honour of Christopher Green, Courtauld Institute of Art, 1968-2008 ed. Charles M. Miller (Yale University Press, 2014)

Published:

9. Fae Brauer, ‘Wild Beasts and Tame Primates:  “Le douanier” Rousseau’s Dream of Darwin’s Evolution’, Chapter 8, The Arts of Evolution: Charles Darwin and Visual Cultures, eds. Fae Brauer and Barbara Larson (Dartmore:  The University Press of New England, 2009) (ISBN 978-1-58465-775-0) pp. 194-225.

10. Fae Brauer, ‘Framing Darwin:  A Portrait of Eugenics’, Chapter 5, The Arts of Evolution: Charles Darwin and Visual Cultures, eds. Fae Brauer and Barbara Larson (Dartmore:  The University Press of New England, 2009) (ISBN 978-1-58465-775-0) pp. 124-154.

11. Fae Brauer, 'The Transparent Body:  Biocultures of Evolution, Eugenics and Scientific Racism', Chapter Six in A History of Visual Culture:  Western Civilization from the 18th to the 21st Century, eds. Jane Kromm and Susan Benforado Bakewell, Berg:  Oxford International Publishers, 2009, pp. 89-103 (ISBN 978 1 84520 493 9 (cloth); 978 1 84520 492 1 (paper)

12. Fae Brauer, 'The Stigmata of Abjection: Degenerate Limbs, Hysterical Skin and The Tattooed Body', Chapter Twelve in A History of Visual Culture:  Western Civilization from the 18th to the 21st Century, eds. Jane Kromm and Susan Benforado Bakewell, Berg:  Oxford International Publishers, 2009 pp. 169-185 (ISBN 978 1 84520 493 9 (cloth); 978 1 84520 492 1 (paper) 

13. Fae Brauer, 'One Friday at the French Artists’ Salon:  Pompiers and Official Artists at the ‘Coup de Cubisme’, in Pompiers and Official Artists, Traditional Art in France, 1900-1960, eds. Natalie Adamson and Toby Norris, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009 (ISBN (10): 1-4438-1361-3; ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-1361-7) pp. 51-84.

14. Fae Brauer, ‘Eroticizing Lamarckian Eugenics: The Body Stripped Bare during French Sexual Neoregulation’, in Art, Sex and Eugenics:  Corpus Delecti, eds. Fae Brauer and Anthea Callen, Ashgate Publishing, 2008, pp. 97-138 (ISBN 978-0-7546-5827-6) pp. 97-138.

15. Fae Brauer, ‘Making the Eugenic Body Delectable:  Art, ‘Biopower’ and ‘Scientia Sexualis’, Introduction, Art, Sex and Eugenics:  Corpus Delecti, eds. Fae Brauer and Anthea Callen, Ashgate Publishing, 2008, pp. 1-34 (ISBN 978-0-7546-5827-6) pp. 1-34.

16. Fae Brauer, ‘De la rationalisation d'Éros:  Le fléau d'Onan, l'impératif de procréation et les automates sexuels de Duchamp’; Marcel Duchamp et l’érotisme, Les presses du réel, Dijon, France, 2008, pp. 139-163.

17. Fae Brauer, Rationalizing Eros:  The ‘Plague of Onan’, the Procreative Imperative and Duchamp’s Sexual Automatons, in Marcel Duchamp and Eroticism, ed. Marc Décimo, English edition, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007, pp. 126-148.

18. Fae Brauer, 'Dégénéréscence' in Dictionnaire du corps, ed. Michela Marzano, Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 2007, ISBN 2 13 055058 4; pp. 278-285.

19. Fae Brauer, 'Biopouvoir' in Dictionnaire du corps, ed. Michela Marzano, Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 2007, ISBN 2 13 055058 4; pp. 137-140.

20. Fae Brauer, 'Bodybuilding' in Dictionnaire du corps, ed. Michela Marzano, Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 2007, ISBN 2 13 055058 4; pp. 144-150.

21. Fae Brauer, Le duo dangereux:  «L’homme normal» et le corps dégénéré au temps de eugénisme, in Représentations du corps.  Le biologique et le vécu.  Normes et normalité, eds.Gilles Boëtsch, Nicole Chapuis-Lucciani, Dominique Chevé, Jean-Pierre Albert, Presses Universitaires de Nancy, 2006, ISBN ISBN 2864809370 - ISBN-13 9782864809371; pp. 94-112.

22. Fae Brauer, 'Dangerous Doubles:  Degenerate and Regenerate Body Photography in the Eugenic Imagination', in Image and Imagination, ed. Martha Langford, McGill-Queen's University Press, Montréal, 2005, pp. 91-102.

23. Fae Brauer, 'Les doubles dangereux:  La photographie du corps dégénéré et du corps régénéré', in Image et Imagination, ed. Martha Langford, McGill-Queen's University Press Montréal, 2005, pp. 91-102.

24. Fae Brauer, 'Le duo dangereux:  “L’homme normal” et le corps dégénéré', in Corps biologique et corps vécu : du corps affecté au corps agissant, Anthropologie des Représentations du corps, CNRS, Éditions La Découverte, Marseille, 2004, pp. 61-77.

25. Fay Brauer, 'Commercial Spies & Cultural Invaders:  The French Press, Pénétration Pacifique and Xenophobic Nationalism in the Shadow of War', in Printed Matters:  Printing, Publishing and Urban Culture in Europe in the Modern Period, eds. Malcolm Gee and Tim Kirk, University of Northumbria, Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2002, pp. 105-132