Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0452779

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0452779

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Regenerating the Body: Modern Art, Neo-Darwinism and the Fitness Imperative. Drawing upon histories of art, popular culture, medicine, science and sport, this project proposes that a reconceptualization and reimaging of the human body occurred in Western art and culture, from the end of the nineteenth century, through fitness becoming a Neo-Darwinist imperative. By demonstrating how regeneration facilitated the normalization and 'subjectification? of the body for procreative sexuality, technologized industry and modern warfare, it substantially revises Michel Foucault's ?biopolitical? theories. In identifying how beauty became inscribed upon the regenerated body and abjection upon the degenerate ?other?, it reveals that the quest for biogenetics emerged long before it became a reality in Nazi Germany.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-07-2004

End Date: 31-12-2007

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $83,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Cultural Theory | Art History And Appreciation | History: European | Art Theory and Criticism

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Ability and disability | The creative arts | Arts and leisure not elsewhere classified |

Other Keywords

Ability and disability | Art History And Appreciation | Art Theory and Criticism | Arts and leisure not elsewhere classified | Cultural Theory | History: European | The creative arts

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