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This book reveals how, when, where and why vitalism and its relationship to new scientific theories, philosophies and concepts of energy became seminal from the fin de siècle until the Second World War.
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Fae Brauer is Professor Emeritus of Art and Visual Culture at the University of East London Centre for Cultural Studies Research; Honorary Professor of Art History and Art Theory at The University of New South Wales and a Commissioning Editor for the Rowman & Littlefield International Radical Cultural Studies Series. She is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts with an MA and PhD from The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London.
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This book reveals how, when, where and why vitalism and its relationship to new scientific theories, philosophies and concepts of energy became seminal from the fin de siècle until the Second World War.