Fae (Fay) Brauer is Professor of Art and Visual Culture at the University of East London School of Arts and Digital Industries, and Associate Professor in Art History and Cultural Theory at The University of New South Wales College of Fine Arts. Her books include The Art of Evolution: Darwin, Darwinisms and Visual Culture; Art, Sex and Eugenics: Corpus Delecti; and Picturing Evolution and Extinction: Degeneration and Regeneration in Modern Visual Cultures.
“The distinctiveness and value of Brauer’s account lies in the detail and vividness of the narrative, and the sense it conveys of an animated, shifting cultural field, inflected by the overall context of politics and ideas in France during the period. It draws on a wide range of archival and published sources, making particularly effective use of visual evidence in the form of works of art themselves, documentary photographs and caricatures. […] This book is the product, clearly, of monumental effort, the culmination of the author’s longstanding engagement with this field of enquiry. Cambridge Scholars should be commended for taking it on, complete with its thousands of notes and hundreds of illustrations.”—Dr Malcolm Gee, Northumbria University; Art History, Volume 38, Issue 1, 2015“Rivals and Conspirators: The Paris Salons and the Modern Art Centre is an extraordinarily detailed, meticulously documented account of the inside story of the major French salons from 1881 to 1914. Based on a vast number of primary sources, such as State documents, catalogues, newspaper reports and journal critiques, Brauer uncovers what really lay behind the battles for stylistic supremacy, State acquisitions, commissions and exhibiting rights in the premier government-controlled exhibiting venues in Paris. […]This is a well-tilled field, but Brauer’s range and focus sets her apart. […] She includes an impressive variety of written materials and an even more interesting—and copious—selection of visual material. The written material is not easy to come by and it betokens a major research effort, but it is the visual material that gives life to the book and drama to Brauer’s argument.”—Dr Ann Galbally, University of Melbourne; Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 14:1, 2014
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