The Corporeal Territories of War: Representing Disfigurement and Death in World War One Britain. (360G-Wellcome-082864_Z_07_Z)

£77,100

The three pieces of work that I am proposing to complete during this period of research leave will deepen our understanding of the emotional and corporeal terrain of the Great War by focusing on representations and perceptions of injury, disfigurement and death. To what extent are our responses to these states of embodiment culturally inflected and regulated? What is and has been the role of images themselves in mediating the corporeal territories of war from the wealth of visual documentati on contained in WWI medical archives, to the visual rhetoric of sacrifice in the illustrated press, or in more self-consciously realistic cinematic propaganda like The Battle of the Somme? The case studies I will be working with will shed light on other topical issues including the relationship between art and surgery, and the relationship between war, representation and censorship particularly the selective representation of casualties. I want, most of all, to question and complicate the horror of disfigurement and death by contextualising the image and idea of the wounded, dying and dead body in First World War Britain. This will involve detailed archival research as well as a critical engagement with theories of embodiment, faciality and visual culture.

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Grant Details

Amount Awarded 77100
Applicant Surname Biernoff
Approval Committee Medical History and Humanities Funding Committee
Award Date 2007-06-14T00:00:00+00:00
Financial Year 2006/07
Grant Programme: Title Personal Support: Inactive Scheme
Internal ID 082864/Z/07/Z
Lead Applicant Dr Suzannah Biernoff
Partnership Value 77100
Planned Dates: End Date 2012-09-30T00:00:00+00:00
Planned Dates: Start Date 2007-10-01T00:00:00+00:00
Recipient Org: Country United Kingdom
Region Greater London