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Sport and the European avant-garde (1900-1945) /

"What has been the significance of sport for the European avant-garde in the first half of the 20th century? From an international and interdisciplinary perspective we show the extent to which avant-garde art and culture was shaped by the dynamic encounter with modern sports. Our focus lies on...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Kramer, Andreas, 1963- (Editor), Strożek, Przemysław, 1983- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]
Series:Avant garde critical studies ; 39.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: sport and the European Avant-Garde (1900-1945) / Andreas Kramer and Przemysław Strożek
  • 1. Vitalist Cubisms: the biocultures of virility, militarism and La Vie Sportive / Fae Brauer
  • 2. The aesthetics and ideology of sport in Italian Futurism / Günter Berghaus
  • 3. Outside the vortex? Vorticism and the English Avant-Garde's indifference to sport / John Hughson
  • 4. "Vive le sport!" German Expressionism and Dada / Andreas Kramer
  • 5. Sports and the Bauhaus: bringing school to life / Joann Skrypzak-Davidsmeyer
  • 6. A new pitch: art, sport and the impact of the Avant-Garde in the Soviet Union in the 1920s / Mike O'Mahony
  • 7. Workers' sport, mountaineering and the Avant-Garde left in Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland: on sporting content in ReD, Munka and Dźwignia / Przemysław Strożek
  • 8. After Purism: the Young Man's Home at the 1935 Brussels Exhibition / Bernard Vere.