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"Art, Sex and Eugenics "

Release on 2017-07-052017-07-05 by Anthea Callen

Author: Anthea Callen

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781351575416

Category: Art

Page: 317

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This book reveals how art and sex promoted the desire for the genetically perfect body. Its eight chapters demonstrate that before eugenics was stigmatized by the Holocaust and Western histories were sanitized of its prevalence, a vast array of Western politicians, physicians, eugenic societies, family leagues, health associations, laboratories and museums advocated, through verbal and visual cultures, the breeding of 'the master race'. Each chapter illustrates the uncanny resemblances between models of sexual management and the perfect eugenic body in America, Britain, France, Communist Russia and Nazi Germany both before and after the Second World War. Traced back to the eighteenth-century anatomy lesson, the perfect eugenic body is revealed as athletic, hygienic, 'pure-blooded' and sexually potent. This paradigm is shown to have persisted as much during the Bolshevik sexual revolution, as in democratic nations and fascist regimes. Consistently posed naked, these images were unashamedly exhibitionist and voyeuristic. Despite stringent legislation against obscenity, not only were these images commended for soliciting the spectator's gaze but also for motivating the spectator to act out their desire. An examination of the counter-archives of Maori and African Americans also exposes how biologically racist eugenics could be equally challenged by art. Ultimately this book establishes that art inculcated procreative sex with the Corpus Delecti - the delectable body, healthy, wholesome and sanctioned by eugenicists for improving the Western race.
Art
Language: en
Pages: 317

"Art, Sex and Eugenics "

Authors: Anthea Callen
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-07-05 - Publisher: Routledge

This book reveals how art and sex promoted the desire for the genetically perfect body. Its eight chapters demonstrate that before eugenics was stigmatized by the Holocaust and Western histories were sanitized of its prevalence, a vast array of Western politicians, physicians, eugenic societies, family leagues, health associations, laboratories and
The Routledge Companion to Art and Disability
Language: en
Pages: 464

The Routledge Companion to Art and Disability

Authors: Keri Watson, Timothy W. Hiles
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-03-31 - Publisher: Routledge

The Routledge Companion to Art and Disability explores disability in visual culture to uncover the ways in which bodily and cognitive differences are articulated physically and theoretically, and to demonstrate the ways in which disability is culturally constructed. This companion is organized thematically and includes artists from across historical periods
Picturing Evolution and Extinction
Language: en
Pages: 302

Picturing Evolution and Extinction

Authors: Fae Brauer
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-05 - Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

With the increasing loss of biological diversity in this Sixth Age of Mass Extinction, it is timely to show that devolutionary paranoia is not new, but rather stretches back to the time of Charles Darwin. It is also an opportune moment to show how human-driven extinction, as designated by the
Eugenics and Nation in Early 20th Century Hungary
Language: en
Pages: 343

Eugenics and Nation in Early 20th Century Hungary

Authors: M. Turda
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-03-25 - Publisher: Springer

In 1900 Hungary was a regional power in Europe with imperial pretensions; by 1919 it was crippled by profound territorial, social and national transformations. This book chronicles the development of eugenic thinking in early twentieth-century Hungary, examining how eugenics was an integral part of this dynamic historical transformation.
The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature
Language: en
Pages: 450

The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature

Authors: Jessica Gildersleeve
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-12-23 - Publisher: Routledge

In recent years, Australian literature has experienced a revival of interest both domestically and internationally. The increasing prominence of work by writers like Christos Tsiolkas, heightened through television and film adaptation, as well as the award of major international prizes to writers like Richard Flanagan, and the development of new,

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